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eative  Psychics 

I  Art  of  Regeneration 


The  Science  and  Art  of  the  Religion 
of  the  Future;  a  Positive  Science  of 
Metapsychics  and  the  Art  Expression 
of  Regenerative  Mysticism;  an  Inter- 
pretation of  the  Emancipation  of  the  Age 


BY 

FRED  HENKEL 


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Creative  Psychics 

The  Art  of  Regeneration 


The  Science  and  Art  of  the  Religion 
of  the  Future;  a  Positive  Science  of 
Metapsychics  and  the  Art  Expression 
of  Regenerative  Mysticism;  an  Inter- 
pretation of  the  Emancipation  of  the  Age 


"^  BY 


FRED  HENKEL 


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GOLDEN  PRESS 

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Los  Angreles,  California,  U.  S.  A. 

1917 


To  all  who  foster  Self-Reliance, 
Self-Development  and  Sex  Un- 
foldment  as  fruitions  of  the  pro- 
creative  urge ;  who  see  in  Creative 
Generation,  Re-generation  and  Art 
generation;  who  value  the  divine 
importance  of  developing  the  In- 
herent Creative  and  Procreative 
Powers  to  encompass  the  ''Whole 
of  Divinity" :  Humanity  as  well  as 
Nature. 


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FRED  HENKEL 

203  Tajo  Building 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

U.  S.  A. 


Meditations  and  Reflections     ^p,  ^ 

Mysticism — Creative  Psychics — is  caused  through  the  sincere  ef- 
fort to  transcend  the  appearance  of  things  and  to  recognize  the  causes 
as  well  as  to  find  naturally  automatically  self-healing  remedies. 

Our  own  insight  into  life  and  nature  developes  in  the  same  degree 
as  we  exert  ourselves  to  interpret  and  develop  insight  in  others. 

As  we  try  to  understand  others  and  help  them  to  help  themselves, 
to  that  extent  do  we  redeem  ourselves. 


Humanity  alone  can  consciously  develope  supernatural  power. 

Vigorous  thinking  about  life's  problems,  the  "fair"  playing  of  the 
game  of  life,  brings  out  the  dynamic  relationship  between  body,  mind 
and  soul,  and  self-critical  unconscious  cerebration,  intuition  and 
revelations. 

Mysticism  is  created  through  underlying  feeling  and  aestheticism 
to  the  intellect,  that  is  the  beautiful  to  the  useful,  or  what  is  the  same : 
Eastern  thought  to  Western  knowledge. 

Mysticism  implies  character  formation. 

Symbolism  drags  realism  into  art;  mysticism  shoves  it  out. 

All  symbolical  art  is  fictitious  art  and  is  the  forerunner  of  all  fic- 
tion. Truly  relative  art  can  only  come  through  reaction  against 
symbolical  art. 


The  modern  efficiency  man  is  a  practical  psychiatrist. 

Laughter,  wit  and  humor  as  well  as  satire  and  swearing  are  reme- 
dies with  mystical  healing  powers,  which  humanity  had  to  create  by 
necessity  against  the  perversion  through  false  reverence,  fear  and 
superstition.  The  dogmatist  naturally  lacks  these  self-healing  quali- 
ties and  also  cannot  appreciate  them. 

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CONTENTS  OF  PART  ONE 


1.  Preface  and  the  problem  at  large 5 

2.  Religion,  the  evolution  of  perception  of  the  Unseen. ...  6 

3.  Psychology,  what  it  is.    What  is  psycho-logic  ?    What 

is  the  law  that  governs  psychic  phenomena  ? 11 

4.  Metapsychics  and  creative  mysticism,  an  introduction . .  16 

5.  The  Creative  Force,  Its  Principle,  and  the  principle 

of  the  emancipation  of  the  age 41 

6.  What  is  Mysticism,  and  What  is  a  Mystic  ? 54 

7.  How  to  Produce  the  Mystic 67 


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PREFACE  AND  THE  PROBLEM  AT  LARGE 

Metapsychics  and  creative  Mysticism  embody  the  Science 
and  the  Art  of  the  religion  of  the  future.  The  problem  is 
presented  in  several  series  of  essays  interpreting  the  working 
principles  which  underly  the  principle  of  the  emancipation 
of  the  age.  This  is  an  Emancipation  through  psychic  Enlight- 
enment, that  is:  an  emancipation  through  Aestheticism,  ex- 
pounding the  psychical  and  metapsychical  aspect  and  an 
aesthetical  view  of  evolution  of  life  and  creation :  an  aesthetical 
Weltanschauung.  It  deals  with  the  perception  of  the  supra- 
natural  or  supernatural  Creative  Force  or  God  of  Unity  in  ac- 
tion as  Duality.  It  deals  with  such  ancillary  problems  as  the 
development  of  the  human  soul,  with  religion,  philosophy  and 
art  of  the  past  and  the  future,  the  development  of  Free  Will, 
practical  transcendentalism,  creative  mysticism,  spontaneous 
creative  action  of  the  subliminal  mind,  organic  fusion  and 
growth,  mental  healing  powers,  practical  psychology  and  oc- 
cultism and  the  laws  of  psychic  phenomena  in  general.  It 
aims  in  special  at  the  interpretation  of  fourth  dimensional 
arts,  the  psychology  of  a  high  art  of  landscape  gardening  and 
other  higher  dimensional  vistas  of  art.  As  long  as  humanity 
in  general,  and  the  artists  in  particular  cannot  visualize  the 
Creative  Force  or  God  in  a  high  art  with  nature's  beauty 
as  well  as  with  man,  woman  and  child,  so  long  is  our  concep- 
tion and  vision  of  It  partial  and  abnormal.  It  is  the  office  of 
mystical  high  art  to  solve  this  problem. 

The  whole  problem  of  creative  development  of  our  psyche, 
that  is  of  creative  psychic  or  occult  powers,  depends  on  psychic 
exercise.  We  must  cultivate,  practice  and  exercise  our  psychic 
powers  in  order  to  develop  and  increase  them,  just  as  we  must 
practice  and  exercise  our  intellectual  and  our  physical  endow- 
ments. We  cannot  expect  to  develop  psyche  without  sincere 
effort.  Creative  psychic  development,  like  creative  physical 
development,  and  unlike  intellectual  development,  depends  on 
independent  self  development  of  indwelling,  inborn  individu- 


CREATIVE    PSYCHICS 


ality  and  originality.  Creative  psychic  powers  are,  however, 
fundamentally  transcendental  powers,  and  we  increase  them  in 
the  proportion  of  the  effort  exercised  to  transcend  their  phe- 
nomena. It  is  not  the  result  of  a  mechanical  process  of  learn- 
ing through  memorizing,  but  one  of  self  developing  and  recip- 
rocal education  through  co-operation.  The  entire  problem 
leads  to  the  interpretation  of  the  education  of  the  future,  an 
education  through  co-operation,  and  to  the  understanding  of 
the  beneficial  influence  which  such  development  must  exercise 
on  the  normal  evolution  of  Feeling  and  Vision.  The  sources 
which  create  the  power  of  Intuition,  Revelation,  and  what 
science  calls  *' spontaneous  creative  action  of  the  subliminal 
mind":  to  the  development  of  creative  mystical  or  psychic 
powers  in  general,  and  the  causes  which  necessitate  their  higher 
development,  are  manifold  but  have  much  in  common  if  we 
proceed  to  transcend  them.  They  are  dealt  with  in  another 
series  of  essays  which  represent  various  views  of  the  inex- 
haustible solution  of  one  and  the  same  riddle  of  life  and 
creation  which  presents  and  reveals  itself  to  every  human  be- 
ing, in  diverse  ways.  As  all  positive  sciences  have  come  out 
of  reaction  against  abstract  or  alchemistic  sciences  and  thus 
through  a  revolution,  it  must  be  evident  that  a  positive  science 
of  religion  and  a  positive  high  art  must  follow  the  abstract 
symbolical  development  of  the  past. 


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RELIGION  THE  EVOLUTION  OP  PERCEPTION 
OP  THE  UNSEEN 

Metapsychics  or  meta-psychology  is  the  science  of  the  Un- 
seen Creative  Force  just  as  psychics  or  psychology  is  the  science 
of  the  indwelling  unseen  creative  force  of  the  human  mind.  Re- 
ligion of  the  future  is  a  science  and  an  art  dealing  with  evolution 
of  perception  of  the  Unseen.  It  is  therefore  with  the  evolution 
of  high  or  religious  art  expression  with  which  the  religion  of  the 


EVOLUTION  OP  PERCEPTION  OF  THE  UNSEEN   7 

future  is  concerned.  It  recognizes  thus  only  a  positive  science 
and  a  positive  art  of  emancipation  of  vision,  and  has  a  positive 
psychic  aim.  It  recognizes  that  all  humanity  needs  is  to  be  re- 
lieved from  subnormal  or  psycho-pathological  vision  in  order  to 
see  truth  for  itself  afresh  each  day.  This  demands  that  every 
age  evolves  a  higher  inward  vision  of  truth.  As  truth  is  the 
emancipating  power,  and  as  its  vision  is  the  principal  thing  it 
must  be  evident  that  the  whole  problem  hinges  on  the  evolution 
of  high  art  and  Art  Consciousness. 

Religion  cannot  evolve  unless  high  art  evolves.  Religion, 
as  the  term  is  herein  used,  is  that  Reliance  that  all  sentient 
beings  feel  towards  forces  and  powers  that  transcend  the  unde- 
veloped faculties  of  the  mind. 

As  the  mind  develops  by  experience  from  its  vague  and 
crude  reliance,  it  seeks  and  attains  positive  justification  in  scien- 
tific supports  and  transcendental  or  aesthetical  gratifications. 

Every  advance  in  science  opens  wider  reaches  for  the  devel- 
opment of  the  Art  urge.  Religion  evolves  as  high  Art  evolves. 
It  has  not  evolved  otherwise.     It  cannot  evolve  otherwise. 

Religion  is  thus  fundamentally  an  Art  Problem,  and  the  re- 
ligion of  the  future  creates  a  higher  Art  Consciousness,  which 
is  identical  with  God  Consciousness.  The  religious  instinct  in 
humanity  is  thus  the  Visionistic  Instinct :  the  indwelling  desire 
to  vision  the  Unknown  and  Unseen  workings  of  the  Creative 
Force  or  God ;  it  is  the  inherent  desire  of  Feeling  and  Express- 
ing Feeling  in  acts  and  in  art  manifestation. 

The  religion  of  the  future  is  a  constructive  Science  of  Feeling 
and  regards  spiritual  powers  as  indwelling  psychic  powers.  It 
propounds  principles  which  increase  these  fundamentally  occult 
and  mystical  powers.  It  thus  propounds  principles  which 
govern  the  development  of  an  Occult  or  Mystical  high  art,  whilst 
the  religion  of  the  past  cultivates  only  a  symbolic  high  art.  It 
recognizes  that  normal  psychic  development  can  only  be  ob- 
tained through  knowing  oneself,  as  otherwise  the  vision  is  de- 
formed, which  results  in  projection  of  our  pathological 
self  into  our  vision  of  the  Creative  Force  or  God.  As  the 
Creative  Force  in  action  is  dual  it  must  be  evident  that  our 
vision  of  both  aspects  must  be  distorted  and  misleading.  The 
principles  underlying  mystical   high   art   expression   are   the 


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principles  underlying  creation  itself.  Religious  consciousness — 
God  consciousness,  means  art  consciousness:  A  purified  per- 
ception of  the  Unseen.  We  look  at  religion  solely  from  the 
point  of  view  of  art  and  thus  have  to  purify  and  increase  vision 
and  imagination  of  the  Unseen.  The  principles  underlying  the 
formation  of  normal  vision  and  imagination,  and  therefore  of 
true  art,  are  the  principles  of  evolution  and  growth. 

The  past  has  created  only  a  partial  and  subnormal,  that  is, 
psycho-pathological  percept  of  the  Unseen.  Mysticism  repre- 
sents a  higher  normal  vision  which  must  be  created  through 
reaction  against  subnormal  vision,  a  process  which  revolution- 
izes the  individual  and  creates  a  higher  consciousness. 

The  evolution  of  religion  and  art  of  the  past  is  an  evolution 
of  subnormal  vision.  Mysticism  brings  a  vision  which  is  free 
from  the  psycho-pathological  element  of  subnormal  vision, 
which  latter  is  created  through  fear  of  the  Unseen.  Reaction 
against  Fear  is  one  of  the  principal  factors  in  the  evolution  of 
mysticism. 

Subnormal  vision  through  fear  of  the  Unseen  has  led  to  sup- 
pression of  the  knowing  and  developing  of  Self.  It  has  nat- 
urally led  to  suppression  of  Truth,  and  suppression  of  psychical 
and  occult  creative  powers  of  Self,  with  perversion  of  spiritu- 
ality and  spirit-life  in  general  as  a  result.  It  has  led  to  mis- 
understanding between  individuals,  nations  and  races,  and  to 
the  neglect  to  draw  from  collective  experiences  of  nations  and 
races  their  cogent  lessons,  as  well  as  from  individual  life-ex- 
periences. It  has  led  from  tragedy  to  tragedy  until  history 
especially  the  historical  aspects  of  religion,  represents  a  dis- 
torted apprehension  of  the  Unseen.  It  has  led  to  the  suppres- 
sion of  the  best  and  to  the  survival  of  the  brute,  to  the  rule 
of  the  stale,  the  old  and  the  dead,  to  a  cult  of  the  possessive 
instinct  and  of  its  substitution  for  truth.  It  has  led  to  a  cult  of 
second  hand  knowledge,  instead  of  a  cult  of  life  experiences  and 
consecration  of  soul  in  order  to  understand  the  divine  and 
sublime  inner  workings  of  one's  own  life  and  creativeness. 

In  short  subnormal  vision  has  led  to  an  abnormal  and  per- 
sonal apperception  of  the  Unseen  with  all  the  shortcomings  of 
the  subnormal  vision  of  the  individual.  A  higher  vision  and 
higher  visionary  powers  can  only  come  through  self-knowledge 


EVOLUTION  OF  PERCEPTION  OF  THE  UNSEEN   9 

and  from  a  positive  science  with  the  collation  of  life  experiences 
of  the  whole  of  the  human  race,  which  creates  a  higher  normal 
consciousness  of  the  Unseen. 

The  religion  of  the  future  deals  scientifically  with  Principles 
of  the  Unseen,  and  with  the  principles  which  lead  to  a  true 
vision  of  it.  It  regards  the  Unseen  as  an  impersonal  creative 
principle  inherent,  inborne  and  active  in  all  life  and  creation. 
It  visions  the  principle  back  of  the  Creative  Force  in  all  created 
objects,  and  naturally  expresses  it  in  all  art-expressions  in  the 
same  measure  as  it  increases  its  vision.  It  sees  Good  in  all 
created  objects  and  recognizes  all  shortcomings  as  a  necessary 
means  to  a  higher  evolution.  It  destroys  all  cult  with  evil,  and 
deals  with  it  scientifically,  taking  the  sting  and  its  poisoning 
property  out  of  it. 

The  problem  of  perception  of  the  Unseen  implies  a  positive 
scientific  education  in  principles  which  govern  creation,  and  the 
Creative  Force  as  a  principle  of  unity  in  action  as  duality  with 
no  evil  in  it.  It  recognizes  that  there  is  nothing  wrong  with 
life,  creation  and  creator  except  our  apperception  of  it,  which 
naturally  implies  that  our  knowledge  and  conceptions  are  im- 
perfect and  misleading.  It  implies  further  that  we  improve 
our  vision  automatically  in  the  same  measure  as  we  improve  our 
knowledge  and  conceptions  of  creative  processes,  and  that  our 
art  expressions  must  increase  automatically  in  the  same  degree. 

A  positive  science  of  perception  of  the  Unseen  takes  an  un- 
prejudiced, impartial  and  impersonal  view  of  creator,  creation 
and  all  creative  processes,  just  as  any  other  positive  science  is 
expected  to  practice  although  it  calls  for  the  development  of 
higher  means  of  cognition.  It  presents  objectively  and  intel- 
lectually the  aspect  of  the  dual  working  forces  of  God  in  action 
so  that  such  knowledge  can  also  form  and  inform  the  sub- 
liminal or  spiritual  self  of  man  as  correctly  as  possible  in  order 
that  the  latter  may  give  true  expression  of  it.  Like  all  positive 
sciences  it  will  in  time  accumulate  much  second  hand  knowledge 
with  extracts  and  "canned  goods"  as  the  result,  but  it  will 
perpetuate  the  original  scientific  intent  to  induce  and  educate 
the  student  to  scientific  practice  and  experiment  such  as  alone 
can  lead  to  proper  life  experiences  and  forming  and  informing 


10  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

individual  and  original  vision.  This  will  reciprocally  also  im- 
prove the  individual's  art  consciousness  and  art  expression. 

Intellectual  knowledge  and  objective  perception  have  been 
increased  and  purified  in  the  same  measure  as  the  human  vision 
of  the  Unseen  has  been  purified.  Archaic  vision  of  the  Unseen 
distinguishes  itself  through  its  frightfulness  which  early  re- 
ligious art  implies.  This  terroristic  expression  has  diminished 
in  the  course  of  evolution  of  art:  the  artistic  striving  towards 
more  harmonious  expressions  of  the  Unseen.  This  upward 
process  of  evolution  of  vision  must  naturally  continue  and 
the  art  expressions  must  become  in  time  more  and  more  true  to 
the  Universal  Creative  Force  itself,  and  must  lose  all  expression 
of  fear.  Religion  must  naturally  also  lose  its  perverting  aspect 
as  a  cult  of  evil,  which  it  has  inherited  from  its  infantile  past. 

Religion,  and  its  expression  in  art  form,  was  from  its  begin- 
ning a  devil-cult,  a  cult  of  fear  and  superstition,  which  aspect 
must  be  obliterated  in  time.  The  old  religion  must  destroy  itself 
and  a  cult  without  fear  and  devil  must  take  its  place.  The 
archaic  survivals  of  religion  and  its  derivative  art  make  nat- 
urally for  propagation  of  subnormal  vision,  morbid  ecstasy, 
fanaticism  and  the  reversion  to  sexual  infantilism,  as  psychology 
has  it,  to  perversion  of  psyche  in  general. 

The  problem  of  evolution  of  perception  is  therefore  the  prob- 
lem of  emancipation  of  humanity  from  a  belief  in  evil.  It  has  a 
dual  aspect  by  necessity.  It  deals  scientifically  with  the  causes 
of  evil  through  improving  our  intellect  and  knowledge,  besides 
teaching  principles  which  underly  the  formation  of  true  vision 
and  art  creativeness.  The  latter  implies  the  forming  and  in- 
forming of  the  psyche  or  subliminal  Self.  Both  are  interde- 
pendent by  necessity  and  together  lead  to  the  emancipation  of 
humanity. 


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PSYCHOLOGY— WHAT  IT  IS. 

WHAT  IS  PSYCHO-LOGIC  ? 

WHAT  IS  THE  LAW  THAT  GOVEENS 

PSYCHIC  PHENOMENA? 

The  laws  of  psychic  phenomena  imply  that  every  age  and 
every  individual  has  to  produce  its  own  remedies  automatically 
and  increases  higher  creative  and  augmented  mental  healing 
powers  to  the  extent  that  it  creates  the  need  for  them.  This  is 
the  natural  product  of  the  higher  consciousness  which  the  age 
demands  from  the  individual  as  well  as  from  the  race  in  general. 
The  individual  as  well  as  the  race  must  develop  higher  con- 
sciousness in  order  to  advance. 

Psychology  is  a  positive  science  of  cognizing  and  developing 
the  Unknown  and  Unseen  Subliminal  Creative  Powers  in  hu- 
manity. It  is  a  positive  science  of  the  Greater  Self  in  man,  lead- 
ing to  a  positive  science  of  the  greater  self  of  the  Cosmos  and  to 
Cosmic  Consciousness.  This  latter  object  is  the  task  of  meta- 
psychics.  Both  deal  with  the  Force  that  binds,  unites,  harmon- 
izes and  elevates. 

We  cannot  understand  nor  interpret  Life  and  the  Cosmos 
with  the  intellect  alone,  but  the  latter  must  be  assisted  by  Feel- 
ing into  life  and  nature.  For  that  purpose  we  have  to  develop 
our  Psyche  or  Feeling  Self.  Feeling  into  life  and  nature 
teaches  us  that  all  life  is  evolved  out  of  reaction  against  waste, 
which  waste  must  naturally  accompany  every  creative  process. 
It  teaches  us  also  that  evolution  of  life  is  an  evolution  of 
Psyche  or  soul,  which  is  evolved  through  the  sincere  attempt 
and  effort  to  compensate  for  waste.  The  greater  the  waste  which 
an  age  produces  the  higher  it  develops  its  psyche  in  order  to 
transmute  waste  into  creative  profit. 

Our  age  is  an  age  of  highest  creativeness,  inventiveness  and 
productiveness  and  also  accompanied  by  the  greatest  prodigal- 
ity of  waste.    It  creates  and  demands  automatically  the  highest 


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development  of  psychic  powers.  Our  age  has  therefore  devel- 
oped a  positive  science  called  psychology  which  is  the  automatic 
outcome  of  our  psycho-pathological  development  caused  by  our 
long  continued  cult  of  the  male  or  possessive  instinct.  It  has 
been  created  out  of  Unconscious  Reaction  against  extreme 
pathological  development  of  our  Psyche  and  through  the  neglect 
of  our  educators  to  develop  a  higher  consciousness  in  the  indi- 
vidual and  in  the  race  in  general. 

What  is  therefore  the  nature  and  what  are  the  principles  of 
a  positive  science  to  increase  our  consciousness  and  our  psychic 
creative  powers  ?  must  be  asked ;  and  on  what  principles  is  its 
logic  based?  Such  principles  must  naturally  be  psycho-logical 
and  express  through  a  well  formed  and  well  informed  Feeling 
into  Life  and  nature. 

Psyche  like  psycho-logic  is  naturally  created  purest  and 
strongest  through  transcending  our  own  life  experiences  which 
form  and  inform  feeling.  It  is  therefore  through  the  increase 
of  such  feeling  that  we  can  become  conscious  of  higher  cre- 
ative processes  and  develop  that  kind  of  logic  through  which  we 
can  present  and  prove  the  truth  of  the  conclusions  and  validity 
of  the  principles  which  need  to  be  applied  to  the  higher  devel- 
opment of  creative  psychic  powers,  and  of  the  turning  of  waste 
into  creative  profit.  The  reasoning  process  must  be  based  on 
our  life  experiences  and  the  conclusions  must  coincide  with  the 
collective  experiences  of  races  and  nations  which  collaterate 
such  experiences  and  alone  can  form  and  inform  feeling  aright. 

Principles  which  form  and  inform  feeling  must  be  of  psychic 
enlightening  nature,  and  it  is  therefore  with  principles  which 
enlighten  our  psychic  with  which  psycho-logical  development  is 
concerned  first  of  all,  and  which  naturally  enlighten  our  intel- 
lect also,  and  thus  obliterate  inner  conflicts  at  the  same  time. 
This  science  has  naturally  two  sides :  a  preventive  and  a  curative 
or  re-creative  side.  All  conflicts  naturally  produce  increased 
waste,  and  it  is  with  the  causes  of  waste  and  the  transcending 
of  conflicts  with  which  mysticism  is  principally  concerned.  We 
form  and  inform  our  feeling  best  by  transcending  conflicts 
which  accompany  life  experiences.  The  development  of  creative 
psychic  powers  is  therefore  forcefully  affected  by  those  con- 
flicts between  human  factors  which  are  at  the  root  of  all  exces- 


WHAT  IS  PSYCHOLOGIC?  13 

sive  waste.  For  it  is  conflict  that  increases  sensitiveness — that 
is  feeling, — and  this  increased  sensitiveness  is  accompanied  by 
the  greater  power  to  react  against  even  the  slightest  traces  of 
abnormal  occurrences  and  leads  to  detection  of  the  causes  and 
agents. 

The  principles  which  can  develop  creative  psychic  powers 
demonstrate  how  every  age  produces  its  highest  re-creative  and 
mental  healing  powers  out  of  reaction  against  pathological 
development ;  our  age  has  created  the  need  for  it  and  produces 
the  remedy  automatically  in  the  most  sensitive  and  inspired 
minds.  This  is  nature  ^s  own  secret.  It  represents  the  nature  of 
the  Creative  Force  itself,  the  principles  of  which  must  also 
govern  us  but  which  can  only  be  recognized  and  developed 
through  own  inner  effort  to  create  a  higher  consciousness  and 
a  higher  common  sense.  Our  age  has  produced  a  higher  com- 
mon sense  by  necessity  through  its  increased  wastefulness.  Our 
age  obeys  the  laws  of  psychic  phenomena,  the  laws  that  every 
perverse  and  abnormal  development  must  create  its  own  natural 
remedy,  which  is  of  a  mystical  nature.  We  cannot  define  it  ex- 
cept through  the  recognition  of  principles  which  lead  to  its 
development.  Like  all  true  products  of  the  age  it  meets  the  de- 
mand of  that  age.  It  is  developed  because  there  is  need  for  it. 
It  is  not  digged  from  the  stone  graves  in  the  pyramids  nor  from 
the  classical  wisdom  of  ancient  Greece,  although  all  collective 
experiences  increase  our  consciousness  to  a  large  degree.  The 
intrinsic  development  of  races  is  naturally  less  enlightening 
than  the  extrinsic  values  which  they  have  created.  Their  col- 
lective experiences,  the  causes  of  their  doom  and  their  perishing 
interests  us  much  more  than  their  classical  perfection  which  led 
up  to  their  decline  and  extirpation.  We  learn  wisdom  from 
tragedies  of  nations,  just  as  we  learn  from  our  own  and  other 
people's  life  experiences.  We  meet  varied  conditions  today, 
and  our  life  experiences  must  lead  to  as  varied  revelations.  We 
cannot  repeat  eternally  the  old  tragedies,  nor  can  we  count  upon 
the  duplication  and  repetition  of  the  individual's  experiences, 
because  the  experiences  of  each  life  are  unique ;  but  all  can  learn 
from  conclusions  drawn  by  others  if  they  conform  to  the  col- 
lective experiences  of  races  and  nations  and  other  individuals. 

Ours  is  a  commercial  age  which  has  its  roots  in  Babylonian 


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culture.  We  need  rather  Solomonic  wisdom  and  the  sagacity  of 
the  fakir  who  tries  to  transcend  the  foolishness  of  humanity. 
What  we  need  is  more  like  the  sublime  power  of  the  *' detective" 
spirit  which  the  age  has  created  outi  of  reaction  against  its 
criminality.  Psycho-logic  is  a  higher  kind  of  detective  logic 
which  transcends  and  recognizes  both  the  causes  and  defects. 
Our  age  has  produced  highest  inventiveness  and  produces  nat- 
urally the  highest  '^detectiveness."  The  latter  is  as  much  a 
creative  achievement  as  the  former  and  is  caused  through  the 
increase  of  the  very  same  urge  within  us.  Detectiveness  repre- 
sents also  therefor  an  increase  of  creative  psychic  power.  In- 
ventiveness meets  as  much  the  agressiveness  of  brute  forces  as 
detectiveness.  We  are  emerging  out  of  an  age  where  possession 
and  might  ruled  over  right,  and  intellect  over  psyche.  We  have 
developed  higher  consciousness  and  higher  creative  psychic 
powers  out  of  reaction  against  brutishness  and  intellectual 
aggressiveness.  We  have  come  to  cognize  the  light  within  us 
and  develop  it  automatically  to  get  and  keep  us  out  of  mental 
and  bodily  slavery.  We  are  of  an  age  which  wants  to  get  free 
by  all  means.  We  have  set  our  hearts  to  it  and  we  shall  succeed. 
We  live  in  an  age  which  demands  plain  truth,  and  it  gets  it.  It 
is  not  to  be  satisfied  with  less.  The  logic  of  the  true  psychologist 
is  like  the  logic  of  the  detective,  somewhat  obscure  to  the  con- 
ventionally educated,  because  of  the  lack  of  the  former  to  com- 
ply with  the  style  of  conventional  literature  of  so-called  artistic 
writing ;  but  he  has  his  own  way  of  tracing  as  well  as  expressing 
truth.  He  does  not  strive  after  an  expression  in  artistic  style, 
but  rather  after  a  plain  scientific  one.  It  must  seem  quite 
natural  that  the  product  of  psychical  development  must  differ 
from  the  intellectual  product,  and  that  the  elegant  is  less 
obvious  than  the  aims  at  which  it  strives.  Our  art  and  style 
will  naturally  change  as  much  as  our  modes  of  education  and 
our  conceptions  of  authority  change.  There  must  be  some- 
thing of  the  Unknown  and  the  Unseen  in  all  expressions  which 
have  come  out  of  psychic  development,  because  it  is  arrived  at 
through  Peeling,  and  must  be  transcended  and  felt  to  become 
an  experience  and  a  power.  It  must  arouse  the  sensitiveness 
and  the  ** sense  of  reaction"  which  it  demands  for  its  under- 


WHAT  IS  PSYCHOLOGIC?  15 

standing.  This  is  what  the  development  of  creative  psychic  or 
creative  mystical  powers  implies. 

It  means  greater  independence  and  freedom  of  self-exertion 
and  self-expression.  We  enter  an  age  which  develops  mystical 
creative  powers  out  of  reaction  against  mental  and  bodily  age- 
old  slavery  and  exploitation.  It  means  the  end  of  a  culture 
which  limits  the  development  of  mankind. 

Our  age  recognizes  the  subliminal  self,  the  God  Within, 
which  rests  on  the  harmonious  development  of  the  intellectual 
and  feeling  self  alike,  a  true  and  happy  conjunction  which 
leads  to  higher  or  supernatural  organic  fusion  and  growth, 
which  is  of  mystical  nature.  We  emerge  out  of  an  age  of 
symbol  worship,  which  also  makes  us  perfect  to  deduce  the 
Unknown  from  the  Known  through  a  logic  of  psychic  nature. 

Such  detective  logic  distinguishes  itself  from  intellectual 
reasoning  from  theories  of  the  scholarly  educated  in  that  it  ar- 
rives at  the  truth  through  a  line  of  intuitive  flashes  of  insight, 
which  come  from  a  well  enlightened  Psyche  without  losing 
contact  with  Reality.  It  distinguishes  itself  from  the  brilliant 
but  defective  deductive  reasoning  of  the  hypnotized  person  and 
the  even  short-circuited  logic  of  the  religionist  and  theologian 
in  that  it  is  accomplished  through  the  aid  of  powerful  and  en- 
lightened intellect,  which  feat  is  possible  only  to  a  mind  that 
has  enlightened  itself  by  first  hand  experiences  and  revela- 
tions. It  is  caused  by  the  cleared  vision  of  subliminal  powers. 
It  is  the  result  of  a  cleared  brain-focus  of  vision  which  leads  to 
a  higher  consciousness  than  the  non-creative  conventionally 
educated  can  acquire.  It  is  for  this  reason  that  our  most  in- 
spired minds  evolve  outside  of  conventional  education  through 
self  development,  and  who  also  have  to  revolutionize  our  educa- 
tional methods  and  thus  advance  humanity.  All  progress  of 
humanity  comes  from  outside  of  conventional  circles  and  their 
adulterated  modes  of  expression. 

A  positive  science  of  psychics  must  naturally  grow  into  a 
science  of  metapsychics — that  is  into  a  science  which  deals  with 
higher  dimensional  realms,  which  interprets  the  laws  and  prin- 
ciples of  nature  on  a  higher  plane  of  expression,  that  is  in 
metapsychical  art.  Metapsychics  deals,  therefore,  more  with 
the  higher  development  of  the  supernatural,  which  demands 


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still  higher  critical  and  transcending  powers.  In<  its  higher 
phases  psychics  is  therefore  applied  to  all  the  causes  which  de- 
grade humanity.  It  overcomes  all  limitations  placed  on  the 
subliminal  power  through  the  restriction  of  perverted  intellect 
and  knowledge.  This  is  naturally  also  a  normal  and  inborn 
faculty  of  humanity,  but  demands  common  sense  and  vision 
of  a  still  higher  order,  which  is  suppressed  and  perverted  by 
the  limitations  placed  on  it  through  the  teachings  of  age-old 
superstition.  It  too  rises  out  of  the  masses, — we  do  not  know 
whence  it  comes.  It  grows  in  many  inspired  minds  until  it 
finds  expression  through  one  of  them, — one  who  transcends 
more  clearly  the  principles  which  govern  its  development. 
Every  age  must  thus  emancipate  itself. 

The  development  of  creative  psychic  powers  is  today  a 
necessity.  Without  it  we  cannot  compete  against  those  that 
cultivate  it.  Nor  can  we  meet  the  competition  of  brute 
force  without  higher  psychic  powers.  Its  need  is  caused  by  the 
great  inventiveness  of  the  age,  and  it  is  the  inventor  to  whom 
we  owe  thanks  for  our  progress,  though  we  do  not  sufficiently 
recognize  his  services  which  are  achieved  through  indefatigable 
perseverance  in  spite  of  all  obstacles  placed  in  his  way  through 
greed.  The  inventor  is  the  mystic  of  our  age.  He  is  a  creative 
mystic  by  necessity,  and  the  age  which  we  are  going  to  enter  is 
the  Age  of  Creative  Mysticism  or  mystical  Creativeness.  The 
inventors  are  the  emancipators  of  humanity,  but  they  are 
inspired  by  the  artists. 


IV 

METAPSYCHICS  AND  CREATIVE  MYSTICISM 

Metapsychics  or  meta-psychology  is  the  scientific  relation- 
ing  of  the  IJnseen  Creative  Force  just  as  psychics  or  psychology 
is  the  science  of  the  human  mind  or  the  indwelling  Creative 
Force. 

Creative  mysticism  is  today  the  paramount  educational 
problem,  and  all  the  foremost  educators  expound  principles 


METAPSYCHICS  17 

of  it  with  the  intent  to  evolve  the  Greater  Self  and  a  Greater 
Humanity.  All  such  separate  efforts  aim  at  the  development 
of  Creative  Psychic  Powers  of  Spontaneous  Creative  Action 
of  the  Subliminal  Mind  and  Organic  Growth  which  all  depend 
on  Organic  Fusion.  The  principles  which  govern  organic 
fusion  and  growth  govern  the  whole  universe  including  the 
evolution  of  life,  spirituality  and  art.  These  separate  efforts 
represent  steps  towards  a  Positive  Science  of  Sciences  which 
is  in  the  making,  and  it  is  my  intention  to  introduce  the  reader 
into  the  fundamental  principles  of  the  religion  of  the  future  and 
its  art  expression  of  Metapsychics  and  Re-creative  or  Mystical 
Art.  These  outstanding  educational  principles  of  the  present 
day  aim  at  evoking  and  cultivating  the  psychic  mental  power 
in  order  to  increase  Creative  Ability,  and  they  serve  to  develop 
the  subjective  plane  of  our  existence  along  with  the  intellectual 
and  physical  Self.  Education  through  Play  and  Re-Creative 
Recreation,  Vocational  Training,  education  through  Concentra- 
tion on  Creative  Principles  and  through  Self  Suggestion,  Mind 
building  through  development  of  Mind  Power,  Mental  Healing 
and  the  development  of  Self  Reliance  in  order  to  overcome  fear 
and  to  develop  Personal  Magnetism,  are  only  a  few  of  the  most 
prominent  features  of  the  development  of  mystical  creative 
activity  and  of  higher  creativeness  in  general;  of  Mystical 
Awareness  of  the  Mind  and  of  the  Development  of  the  Greater 
Self  in  Humanity. 

The  evolution  of  metapsychics  and  creative  mysticism  may 
be  compared  to  that  of  algebra,  and  demands  and  cre- 
ates a  distinct  line  of  logic  and  computation  of  differ- 
ent exponents,  expressions  and  characters.  It  also  makes 
use  of  terms  of  other  sciences  in  order  to  express  itself 
more  fully.  There  exists  a  certain  analogy  and  interde- 
pendence between  all  the  different  products  of  mental  activity 
just  as  between  various  physical  activities  and  physical  and 
mental  activities.  Quite  naturally  all  our  activity  and  creative- 
ness are  dependent  and  interdependent  on  other  and  cosmic 
activity  and  creativeness.  We  cannot  produce  anything  which 
is  not  both  inside  and  outside  of  us.  All  increase  of  our  activ- 
ity and  creativeness  must  naturally  lead  to  a  Higher  Conscious- 
ness and  in  the  end  to  Cosmic  Consciousness.    Thus  everything 


18  CREATIVE    PSYCHICS 

in  the  universe  is  interdependent  on  the  other  and  on  the 
Whole,  and  everything  is  relative  to  the  Whole.  All  is  relative 
only,  but  the  planes  of  that  relativeness  may  be  either  below  the 
normal  and  natural,  or  they  may  be  above  it  and  are,  to  that 
extent  supernatural  —  that  is  higher  dimensional.  All  acts 
and  expressions  are  thus  either  related  to  one  or  the  other  of 
these  planes  with  innumerable  shades  between,  because  they 
are  fundamentally  the  product  of  all  our  creativeness  and 
activity.  The  more  they  are  related  to  the  psychic  plane  the 
higher  is  their  aim. 

Metapsy chics  and  Creative  Mysticism  are  as  much  the  out- 
come of  the  evolution  of  mathematics  and  physics  as  of  the 
revulsion  from  superstitious  religion.  Metaphysics  is  as  much 
a  universal  science  of  physics  and  a  material  interpretation 
of  the  universe  as  metapsychics  strives  for  a  universal 
psychic  interpretation  of  the  universe,  or  Universal  Psychics. 
Religion,  as  we  know  it,  is  an  arrested  development  as  com- 
pared with  its  twin  brother  metaphysics,  and  has  not  yet 
reached  the  status  of  a  positive  science  of  psychics,  which  meta- 
psychics is  destined  to  achieve.  There  is  both  a  parallel  and  a 
distinction  between  metapsychics  and  religion.  The  former 
aims  directly  at  an  understanding  of  the  Cause,  the  latter 
rather  at  the  contemplation  of  the  Effect.  Metapsychics,  the 
science  of  the  religion  of  the  future,  aims  at  both  the  under- 
standing of  the  Cause  and  the  Effect.  It  is  a  free  and  posi- 
tive science  and  teaches  principles  which  govern  mystical  cre- 
ative processes.  It  attains  and  radiates  a  vision  of  the  Cre- 
ative Force  itself,  or  of  God  as  religion  calls  the  Cause.  The 
religion  of  the  future  rests  on  a  positive  science  of  the  Creative 
Force  and  teaches  principles  of  higher  creativeness  which  are 
revealed  through  all  positive  sciences  as  well  as  through 
contemporaneous  study  and  experiment  in  creative  processes. 
It  is  a  positive  Science  of  Sciences,  but  it  is  not  a  conglomerate. 
Such  science  of  sciences  is  an  Organic  Fusion  or  a  living 
Growth,  and  its  development  brings  with  it  the  understanding 
of  Organic  F\ision  and  Growth,  which  represents  the  actual 
Workings  of  the  Creative  Force  or  God. 

It  is  therefore  essentially  with  Organic  Fusion  and  Growth 
with   which  the  religion   of  the   future   is   concerned,   which 


METAPSYCHICS  19 

processes  are  at  the  root  of  all  human  creativeness,  productive- 
ness and  reproductive  power,  just  as  these  constitute  the  roots 
of  all  creation  and  evolution  of  the  world  at  large.  The  process 
of  organic  fusion  and  growth  is  mystical — or  higher  dimen- 
sional and  of  Psychical  Nature,  and  its  understanding  depends 
on  the  development  of  creative  psychic  or  constructive  occult 
powers.  This  mystical  process  is  reciprocal,  which  means  that 
we  develop  along  with  the  understanding  of  it  our  own  psychic 
creativeness  at  the  same  time  and  automatically. 

All  higher  creativeness  is,  like  life  and  creation,  the  result 
of  the  inherent  mystical  power  of  the  Creative  Force  itself  to 
Arouse  Latent  Energies  and  Hidden  Talents — to  stimulate  and 
increase  Radiant  Energy  through  mystical  overcoming  of  Fric- 
tion and  Gravity,  which  thus  makes  organic  fusion,  gemma- 
tion and  growth  possible.  All  creative  activity  is  radiant 
activity  and  produces  a  mystical  effect  just  as  it  has  a  mystical 
origin.  We  may  best  compare  it  to  the  mystical  creativeness 
of  the  inventive  genius,  who,  with  the  increase  of  insight,  ex- 
periment and  reflex,  and  through  concentrating  on  creative 
processes,  increases  his  own  creativeness.  Or  we  may  compare 
it  to  the  mystical  inquisitive  and  detective  spirit  of  the  cre- 
ative artist  who  transcends  the  actuality  of  existence  and  the 
past,  that  is  ''what  was,"  and  creates  a  vision  of  the  future 
and  'Svhat  might  be." 

It  is  therefore  essentially  the  Detective  and  Inquisitive  In- 
ventive and  Artistic  Genius  of  the  race  which  is  representative 
of  the  Creative  Force,  and  which  has  advanced  humanity  step 
by  step  automatically  and  produced  human  evolution.  While 
the  inventor  concentrates  m.ore  on  the  advancement  of  the 
Utilitarian  side  of  life  we  find  the  artist  concentrating  more 
on  the  Aesthetic  aspects  of  life  and  creation.  The  acts  and 
thoughts  of  both  are  governed  by  principles  which  are  most 
truly  relative  to  the  principles  which  govern  the  Creative  Force 
in  Action  in  its  dual  aspect,  because  both  have  increased  their 
own  creative  psychic  power  through  Inner  Effort.  They  are 
not  mere  imitators  but  creators.  The  result  is  an  acquiring  of 
properties  and  character  which  create,  attract  and  direct 
energy  through  creating  higher  energy,  which  is  also  the  Po- 
tential of  the  Creative  Force  itself. 


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Humanity  in  its  course  of  evolution  increases  the  potential 
energy  of  the  universe  through  creating  energy  within  the 
individual  as  well  as  through  attracting  it  from  external 
factors.  It  does  that  automatically  in  the  measure  of  discovery 
of  its  Relationship  with  Outside  Energy  as  well  as  with  the  In- 
crease of  the  Cognizance  of  its  Inner  Working  Processes 
which  increases  its  Consciousness.  The  evolution  of  humanity 
depends  on  its  increase  of  consciousness,  which  increase  is 
caused  through  the  increase  of  Awareness  as  to  its  relationship 
and  interdependence  with  other  created  objects.  In  other 
words:  all  real  progress  is  caused  by  the  Increase  of  Aware- 
ness of  the  Relationship  of  each  phase  of  Being  to  every  Man- 
ifestation of  Life,  Matter  and  Cosmos.  It  is  thus  Cosmic 
Consciousness  that  humanity  strives  for  consciously  and  un- 
consciously. 

Along  with  the  evolution  and  revolution  of  every  religion 
has  been  produced  and  proclaimed  one  or  the  other  of  these 
Relationships  only,  which  is  represented  in  the  emancipating 
principle  of  such  religion.  Through  that  principle  it  gets  its 
Vision  of  the  Creative  Force,  which  vision  is  quite  naturally  a 
partial  percept  of  the  Creative  Force  or  God.  The  true  evolu- 
tion of  every  religion  depends  necessarily  on  the  evolution  of 
the  emancipating  principle  and  thus  on  discarding  denatured 
and  anti-natural  pseudo-principles  which  made  emancipation 
necessary.  An  Emancipation  implies  the  revolution  of  Re- 
ligion. Broader  vision  and  higher  awareness  of  relationship 
can  only  come  through  the  intercourse  of  different  religions: 
with  Interchange  of  their  emancipating  principles. 

The  discovery  and  evolution  of  every  emancipating  principle 
is  caused  by  and  results  in  higher  creative  psychic  powers.  Its 
merit  rests  on  its  power  of  forming  and  Informing  our  Psyche 
on  true  creative  principles,  and  results  therefore  in  an  increase 
of  our  supranatural  or  mystical  productiveness,  creativeness, 
inventiveness  and  art  expression,  because  it  advances  our  own 
creative  power  nearer  the  divine  stage  of  the  Creative  Force 
itself. 

The  problem  of  the  religion  of  the  future  is:  to  stimulate 
creative  psychic  activity,  in  order  that  it  may  assist  in  pro- 
moting a  harmonious  and  well  balanced  development  of  the 


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mental  and  psychical  powers  of  the  awakened  individual. 
This  is  what  occult  creativeness  means — to  cultivate  the 
mystical  power  of  the  psyche  to  produce  that  magnetic  force 
which  is  necessary  to  produce  a  higher  voltage  of  energy,  and 
overcome  the  gravity  and  attrition  of  the  intellect.  This  is 
a  parallel  process  corresponding  to  the  electric  current  under 
the  influence  of  the  magnetic  force  which  is  otherwise  subject 
to  gravity.  Our  inventors  produce,  demonstrate  and  elucidate 
on  the  material  plane  what  we  neglect  to  develop  on  the  psychic 
or  spiritual  plane.  The  inventions  then  in  turn  bring  the  higher 
cognizance  of  our  own  inner  sublime  workings.  Our  inventors 
did  not  invent  electricity  but  have  harnessed  it,  and  humanity 
has  to  learn  that  it  can  similarly  harness  its  own  higher  energy 
and  make  it  productive  instead  of  letting  it  go  to  waste,  de- 
stroying the  best  within  us.  That  is  what  inventors  and  artists 
strive  for  both  objectively  and  subjectively.  The  inventor 
creates  for  the  utilitarian  plane  as  the  artist  creates  for  the 
aesthetic  or  spiritual  plane  through  developing  of  increasing 
psychic  power.  Both  create  through  reducing  friction  and 
gravity  within  themselves  and  thus  reducing  friction  between 
individuals.  They  make  humanity  more  efficiently  creative 
and  reduce  their  molecular  weight.  Our  bodily  molecular 
weight  has  decreased  in  the  same  measure  as  our  art  and  in- 
ventions have  increased.  A  few  hundred  years  ago  our  fore- 
fathers could  hardly  swim,  and  bathing  was  considered  abnor- 
mal. With  the  further  increase  of  psychical  development  no- 
body will  drown  under  ordinary  conditions. 

It  follows  that  higher  creativeness  is  evolved  through  re- 
duction of  friction  and  gravity  within  and  without  the  individ- 
ual. All  occult  processes  demonstrate  the  same  fact,  but  what 
we  are  used  to  call  occult  processes  generally  avoid  friction 
more  or  less  altogether.  They  work  on  the  psychic  plane 
alone.  All  higher  creativeness  is  occult  and'  all  demonstrate 
the  fact  of  a  separate  psychic  plane  within  the  individual,  just 
as  they  demonstrate  the  duality  of  the  creative  force  in  action. 
The  scholarly  educated,  mechanically  cultured  person  naturally 
creates  only  products  which  increase  friction  and  gravity 
evolving  clashing  concepts,  contradictions  and  confusion,  be- 
cause such  culture  promotes  lethargy,  anomaly  of  the  psyche 


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and  subnormal  psychic  activity.  The  more  of  such  adulterated 
knowledge  an  age  produces,  and  propagates  from  its  inher- 
itance of  the  past  the  stronger  is  the  natural  reaction  of 
psychically  creative  minds.  Invention  and  art  increase  at  the 
same  rate  in  order  to  overcome  the  enhanced  friction  and  grav- 
ity which  the  merely  intellectual  promulges.  The  demand  for  a 
spiritual  revolution  and  a  revolution  of  all  culture  and  civiliza- 
tion which  this  misinformed  age  has  perpetuated  from  the  past 
becomes  constantly  more  insistent.  This  process  manifests 
itself  today  in  its  most  pronounced  form.  The  failure  of  our 
intellectual  and  so-called  spiritual  leadership  is  best  demon- 
strated in  the  present  day  upheaval.  We  have  to  convince  the 
conventionally  educated  that  they  are  a  nuisance  and  a  menace, 
a  thorn  in  our  flesh.  Higher  creativeness  and  Spirituality  in 
general  depend  on  the  development  of  creative  psychic  power 
through  ow^n  inner  effort,  and  the  necessary  revolution  can  be 
accomplished  only  through  reaction  against  our  perverted 
teaching  and  educating  which  suppresses  it.  The  coming 
peace  between  nations  will  mark  the  beginning  of  still  more 
revolutionary  upheavals  within  the  nations  unless  we  can  con- 
vince our  educators  that  they  are  fundamentally  mistaken  and 
fallaciously  informed.  Democracy  will  be  a  complete  failure 
so  long  as  we  do  not  revolutionize  our  entire  educational 
machineries  including  our  religions.  These  present  survivals 
from  a  leisurely  aristocracy,  the  rule  of  the  stale,  the  palsied, 
the  withered  and  the  dead.  The  outworn  must  give  way  to 
the  virile,  the  inspired  unselfish  youth  of  the  age  and  to  the 
blithesome  feminine.  The  old  sacrifice  the  young  for  their  mis- 
takes, and  the  most  unselfish  are  destroyed  that  the  sovereignity 
of  caste  and  greed  may  be  upheld  as  long  as  their  tatters  will 
still  bear  patching.  The  outstanding  remissness  of  our  super- 
ficial educators  consists  of  their  lack  of  understanding  that 
ultimate  things  cannot  be  perceived  except  through  the  de- 
veloped Psyche,  This  alone  can  produce  the  necessary  self- 
reliance  and  self-confidence  which  obliterates  abnormal  vision, 
and  leads  to*  a  revolution  of  vision  and  imagination.  It  leads 
to  the  necessary  power  of  concentration  on  truly  evolutionary 
processes  and  selfwill  of  a  higher  order.  It  brings  quite  nat- 
urally a  better  understanding  of  all  truly  creative  processes, 


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and  creative  activity  in  general  as  well  as  a  higher  esteem  for 
the  product  of  purposeful  industry.  Whatever  does  not  pro- 
duce absorbs  energy  and  increases  friction  and  gravity.  Futile 
effort  withholds  from  the  creative  faculty  its  rightful  share 
in  the  valuation  of  service.  Abstinence  from  labour  cannot 
recreate  subnormal  (and  therefore  abnormal)  vision  of  the 
Creative  Force  and  creative  processes  in  general.  Such  ab- 
stention perpetuates  the  credulity  that  places  reliance  upon 
reactionary  forces.  It  is  therefore  quite  logical  that  the  teach- 
ings of  those  whose  livelihood  and  comfort  are  dependent  on 
the  creativeness  of  others  have  fallen  into  utter  disrepute  as  the 
general  creativeness  has  increased.  This  same  increased  cre- 
ativeness has  augmented  the  conception  of  the  Creative  Force 
amongst  the  producing  class  far  beyond  the  conception  of  the 
non-producing  minority.  Creativeness  alone  can  increase  the 
Creative  Force  within:  the  psychic  power,  and  it  is  with  the 
advance  of  this  plane  that  our  age  is  especially  concerned,  be- 
cause this  has  been  neglected  and  perverted  through  the  long 
continued  and  onesided  development  of  the  intellectual  or  ma- 
terial plane. 

It  is  with  a  cult  of  the  psychic  plane  that  the  religion  of  the 
future  is  concerned,  and  which  brings  with  it  also  a  competent 
valuation  of  the  intellectual  plane.  It  is  a  well  recognized  fact 
that  the  consciousness  of  the  human  personality  consists  of  two 
planes:  the  intellectual  or  material  plane  and  the  psychic  or 
spiritual  plane,  and  we  have  to  consider  that  the  psychic  plane 
is  the  higher  dimensional,  occult  or  mystical  plane.  It  repre- 
sents the  supranatural  or  subliminal  workings  of  the  Creative 
Force  within  us.  All  life  is  composed  of  a  multitude  of  con- 
sciousnesses, all  of  them  of  dual  nature.  All  represent  the  Cre- 
ative Force  in  Action,  just  like  our  entire  organism.  We  are 
able  to  develop  both  planes  to  a  higher  status,  and  thus  in- 
crease our  consciousness  and  awareness  as  well  as  our  creative- 
ness. Both  planes  are  interdependent,  one  is  just  a  plane  higher 
and  represents  the  Supranatural  or  subliminal  within  us.  The 
neglect  of  its  development  leads  to  perversion  of  it,  and  it  be- 
comes abnormal,  immoral.  As  this  plane  influences  all  our  acts 
and  thoughts  as  well  as  our  vision  and  art  creativeness  it  must 
be  evident  that  the  neglect  of  it  is  anti-natural,  leading  to  acts 


24  CREATIVE    PSYCHICS 

and  art  expression  which  do  not  conform  to  the  Creative  Force. 

It  is  upon  a  positive  science  of  the  Creative  Force  in  action 
that  the  religion  of  the  future  will  find  its  base.  This  science 
is  metapsychics,  a  higher  science  of  psychics  which  demands 
an  indigenous  computation  and  logic  and  as  it  evolves  it  will 
develop  higher  representative  exponents  and  characters,  that 
is,  higher  art  expressions  just  as  higher  mathematics  created 
its  own  exponents  and  nomenclature  in  order  to  simplify  its 
problems  and  facilitate  their  solutions.  Mathematical  logic 
has  created  algebraic  signs  or  symbols  not  unlike  those  of  re- 
ligious logic,  but  psychology  creates  characters  of  quite  a  dif- 
ferent order.  There  is  a  natural  interrelationship  between  all 
these  developments  which  we  have  to  transcend  in  order  to 
understand  and  develop  the  Subliminal  within.  Metapsychics 
leads  to  a  higher  conception  of  what  religion  seeks  to  in- 
terpret, and  is  a  science  which  deals  as  much  with  the  increas- 
ing vortex  of  a  becoming  sun  as  it  deals  with  the  development 
of  human  character.  It  deals  as  much  with  the  dual  conscious- 
ness of  the  atom  as  it  deals  with  mystical  organic  growth  and 
symbiogenetic  evolution  of  life.  It  views  life  and  creation  from 
every  aspect,  and  perceives  that  the  vortex  of  an  embryonic 
sun  evolves  through  an  organic  fusion  of  contradistinguished 
entities  which  thus  develop  the  personality  of  matter,  or  its 
Gravity  as  it  is  commonly  called.  It  recognizes  that  life  evolves 
out  of  matter  as  the  Flame  of  Matter  through  a  decrease  of 
friction  and  gravity. 

The  entities  or  planes  having  become  higher  consciousnesses 
are  still  contradistinguished,  but  their  harmonious  produce  is 
the  individuated  entity  and  its  inherent  and  distinct  char- 
acter. 

The  evolution  of  metapsychics  and  mysticism  in  the  further 
development  of  evolution  of  the  human  mind  must  become  clear 
when  we  consider  the  difference  between  religious  subnormal 
symbolism  and  mathematical  scientific  symbolism,  and  the  dif- 
ference of  religious  and  mathematical  logic.  The  latter  is  an 
inexorable  consequence  of  the  former  and  represents  in  itself 
a  reaction  against  subnormal  logic  and  symbol  worship,  a  step 
from  the  subnormal  plane  of  vision  to  a  material  plane.  Meta- 
psychics and  mysticism  represent  a  step  toward  the  higher 


METAPSYCHICS  25 

normal,  with  the  normal  development  of  the  Psyche  as  a  result. 
Humanity  has  evolved  on  the  way  from  religion  over  meta- 
physics to  metapsychics  or  higher  dimensional  psychics,  and 
thus  from  religious  symbolism  over  mathematical  and  scientific 
symbolism  to  creative  mysticism.  The  intermediary  step  was 
made  possible  only  through  the  development  of  the  Greek 
cosmological  view  of  life  and  creation.  Mysticism  is,  funda- 
mentally speaking,  a  supranatural  plane  of  symbolism.  Sym- 
bolism evolved  along  with  superstition  and  is  the  product  of 
fear  of  the  Unknown.  Scientific  symbolism  is  a  natural  anti- 
dote against  religious  symbolism  which  humanity  has  created 
automatically  asf  a  mental  remedy.  Mysticism  is  simply  the 
further  product  of  further  reaction  against  subnormal  vision 
of  the  Creative  Force.  It  represents  the  revolutionary  and  re- 
generative processes  that  find  spontaneous  expression  on  a 
higher  plane  of  consciousness.  Religious  symbolism  represents 
a  retrogression  below  the  material  plane,  whilst  the  symbols  of 
mathematics  are  intellectual  or  material.  The  evolution  of  the 
human  mind  cannot  halt  either  on  a  subnormal  nor  on  an  in- 
tellectual plane.  It  will  inevitably  reach  higher.  We  can  un- 
derstand the  process  of  such  evolution  much  better  if  we  review 
the  evolution  of  the  art  of  the  past  and  consider  that  of  the 
future.  High  art  of  the  past  started  with  symbolism  and  ar- 
rived at  realism  which  is  induced  by  the  realistic  scientific 
spirit  of  the  age.  From  there  it  will  automatically  pass  with 
the  advance  of  psychic  development  to  mystical  art  expres- 
sion. Every  phase  in  the  development  of  art  is  the  product  of 
the  times  to  a  large  extent.  It  ought  to  be  more.  It  ought  to  be 
the  leading  and  regenerating  spirit  of  the  times.  It  ought  not 
only  to  mirror  the  times  but  ought  to  lead  it  to  a  higher  plane 
of  culture  and  civilization.  In  other  words:  every  age  ought 
to  produce  a  higher  art  with  a  higher  vision  of  the  Unseen. 
It  is  therefore  with  the  high  or  religious  art  with  which  the 
science  of  the  religion  is  concerned  first  of  all. 

This  implies  the  increase  of  creative  psychic  powers  in  gen- 
eral, through  the  processes  of  forming  and  informing  Psyche 
which  lead  to  increase  of  Vision.  It  recognizes  that  all  effort 
spent  in  clearing  vision  leads  automatically  to  higher  psychic 
powers.     It  believes  that  Enlightenment  of  mental  processes 


26  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

has  a  creative  effect  just  as  it  has  an  automatically  Physical  and 
Mental  healing  effect.  It  recognizes  that  Interpretations  of 
relationship  are  of  highest  enlightening  order.  It  interprets 
all  that  humanity  has  created  in  its  proper  relationship,  and 
thus  also  how  metapsychics  must  naturally  evolve  from  religion 
over  metaphysics.  It  sees  that  metaphysics  is  the  direct  out- 
come of  a  cosmological  religion,  and  thus  more  universal  than 
religion. 

Metapsychics,  analogous  to  higher  mathematics,  makes  use 
of  certain  known  quantities  in  order  to  understand  and  inter- 
pret the  Unknown  and  Unseen,  and  it  develops  thus  along  with 
the  increase  of  collective  experiences  a  higher  degree  of  logical 
understanding  which  is  of  psychological  nature,  just  as  it  de- 
velops automatically  the  psychic  urge  within.  The  evolution 
of  the  human  mind  is  an  evolution  of  logic.  Humanity  has 
passed  in  the  course  of  evolution  from  an  a-logical  state  of 
reasoning  to  an  illogical  and  irrational  state,  and  is  now  pro- 
ceeding from  a  rational  logic  to  psycho-logic. 

As  regards  the  various  modes  through  which  the  different 
sciences  including  religion  try  to  solve  the  mystery  of  the  Un- 
known quantity  it  must  be  evident  that  metapsychics  differs  in 
that  its  aim  is  direct  and  affirmative  and  represents  positive 
psychics.  Metapsychics,  religion  and  metaphysics  strive  at 
understanding  and  interpreting  the  same  Unknown  quantity 
through  different  modes,  exponents  and  characters  which  de- 
mand a  certain  amount  of  visualizing  power  in  order  to  use 
these  exponents  and  characters.  Metaphysics  and  religion 
make  use  of  symbols  whilst  metapsychics  makes  use  of  prin- 
ciples which  govern  mystical  expressions.  We  best  regard 
metapsychics  as  the  science  of  the  religion  of  the  future  and 
mysticism  as  the  base  of  its  art  expression,  just  as  religion  of 
the  past  is  best  regarded  as  the  science,  and  symbolism  the  art 
derived  from  epochal  religion.  We  must  regard  all  religious 
mysticism  of  the  past  as  art  expression,  w^hilst  the  teaching  of 
its  principles  has  been  the  science.  These  differences  become 
more  clear  coincident  with  the  evolution  of  Creative  Mysti- 
cism. 

The  Religion  of  the  Future :  its  Science  and  its  Art,  develope 
together  like  the  religion  of  the  past  and  its  symbolic  art  de- 


METAPSYCHICS  27 

veloped  alongside  of  each  other:  or  mathematics,  algebra  and 
metaphysics.  The  religion  of  the  future  is  therefore  accom- 
panied by  its  own  art  expression  which  it  creates.  All  we  can 
do  today  is  to  proclaim  and  interpret  some  of  the  principles 
which  govern  it,  and  which  can  lead  to  further  development 
of  that  science  and  art.  The  principles  which  govern  a  re- 
ligion and  its  art  must  necessarily  be  the  same.  In  the  course 
of  human  evolution  all  such  principles  must  the  more  and  more 
accord  with  each  other  and  thus  the  more  conform  with  the 
Creative  Force  itself,  and  the  same  principles  which  govern 
our  religion  and  art  must  also  govern  our  life.  This  has  always 
been  the  aim  of  all  forward  striving  minds,  but  it  can  only  be 
obtained  and  the  wish  fulfilled  through  a  positive  Universal 
Religion  governed  by  Universal  Principles. 

As  the  religious  instinct  is  based  on  the  inherent  desire  of 
Expressing  Feeling,  and  as  Feeling  is  of  Aesthetical  nature  we 
must  look  at  religious  development  solely  from  the  view  of 
Aestheticism,  and  it  must  be  made  clear  that  all  human  evolu- 
tion like  all  evolution  of  life  and  creation  is  fundamentally 
aesthetical  evolution. 

We  have  to  thank  the  religion  of  the  past  ^or  the  evoking  of 
visionary  power  through  creating  Fear  of  the  Unknown,  and 
we  have  to  thank  it  for  the  inducement  of  High  Art,  that  is 
Visionary  expression  of  the  Unseen.  The  visualizing  power  of 
the  past  was  necessarily  subnormal  as  psychology  and  mysti- 
cism prove.  The  past  suppressed  the  normal  development  of 
Psyche  and  psychic  powers,  with  the  result  that  the  present  has 
created  by  necessity  first  a  science  of  Psycho-Pathology,  the  aim 
of  which  is  to  cure  pathological  mentality  and  to  find  out  the 
causes  of  such  derangements.  Like  the  beginning  of  all  posi- 
tive sciences  the  origin  of  psychology  was  of  analytic  nature, 
and  it  is  now  gradually  becoming  synthetic  in  the  measure  that 
it  transcends  the  causes.  The  original  of  any  science  is  at  the 
very  inception  of  its  experimental,  negative,  alchemistic  and  ab- 
stract, and  the  religion  of  the  past  presents  the  negative  an- 
cestor of  a  positive  science  of  creative  psychology.  The  course 
of  the  evolution  of  every  religion  ends  in  a  revolution.  We  can 
clearly  recognize  the  course  of  revolution  as  well  as  of  the 
reformation  in  the  slow  and  sure  breaking  up  of  religion  which 


28  CREATIVE    PSYCHICS 

follows  a  schism.  The  moment  a  t'issiparation  breaks  a  religion 
into  fragments  a  reformatory  endeavor  sets  in,  coincidental 
with  a  revolutionary  movement.  The  reformers  were  the  re- 
ligionists, the  revolutionists  the  artists.  The  reformer  led  the 
religion  of  the  past  to  extinction,  the  revolutionists  create  the 
religion  of  the  future.  The  revolutionist  propounds  altogether 
new  and  universal  emancipating  principles  instead  of  religious, 
dogmatic,  sectarian  principles.  The  religions  of  the  past  and 
the  future  have  as  much  in  common  as  the  shadow  of  an  ob- 
ject has  with  the  object  itself,  and  as  little  as  the  alchemistic 
abstract  philosophy  of  the  past  and  the  positive  philosophy  of 
life  of  the  future.  Pragmatism,  for  instance,  represents  a  re- 
formatory process  of  outworn,  dying,  pathological,  philosophi- 
cal theories  and  dogmas.  The  philosophy  of  the  future  is  al- 
ready in  the  making  outside  of  philosophical  circles  just  as  the 
religion  develops  outside  of  religious  circles. 

Religion  itself  was  an  antidote  against  pure  feeling  of  the 
Unknown,  without  formful  representative  expression,,  that  is, 
without  high  art.  It  was  also  like  abstract  philosophy  an 
antidote  against  '^common  sense"  without  imaginative  power 
and  incentive.  The  mind  exercises  itself  incessantly  in  trans- 
cendentalizing  its  powers  of  projection,  and  religions  and  philo- 
sophies of  the  past  were  adapted  to  this  process.  They  repre- 
sent to  us  the  puzzle  of  contradictions  which  we  have  to  recon- 
cile and  on  which  we  can  exercise  and  practice  our  critical 
transcending  power — ever  seeking  to  solve  the  riddle  of  life 
and  creation  for  ourselves  on  a  universal  base  of  understanding. 
This  riddle  was  not  solved  for  us  by  our  ancestors.  They  but 
added  complexities  that  serve  to  spur  oiir  critical  power  of 
transcendentalization,  from  which  we  shall  derive  the  strength, 
the  equipment  and  the  vision  to  solve  it  for  ourselves.  The 
basic  fears  of  the  past  precluded  a  daring  to  encroach  upon  the 
secret  of  the  Unknown.  The  developing  present  is  unafraid  to 
venture. 

All  religions  are  built  on  archaic  foundations,  and  the 
roots  of  all  religions  extend  deep  down  into  the  remote  past 
of  humanity.  As  the  roots  have  sprung  from  abnormal  con- 
ceptions they  are  closely  related  to  the  Immoral  and  Egotistic, 
and  religion  of  the  past  is  therefore  much  more  interested  in 


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morality  than  in  aestheticism.  It  is  also  more  interested  in  the 
Abnormal  rather  than  in  the  Normal.  This  interest  in  the  ab- 
normal and  immoral  must  naturally  exhaust  itself  in  time,  be- 
cause the  continuous  accentuation  of  the  abnormal,  or  evil  as 
it  is  called,  must  tend  to  the  increase  of  it.  It  is  a  psychic  law 
that  the  more  we  center  on  any  process  the  more  we  develop  it, 
and  the  present  day's  trend  is  therefore  towards  propounding 
the  good  instead  of  the  evil  by  way  of  wholesome  reaction 
against  extreme  abnormal  development.  The  present  day's 
revivalism  through  pronouncing  anew  a  devil  cult  and  the  ex- 
istence of  a  devil  is  only  the  last  stage  of  the  Pagan  Religion 
of  the  past,  which  has  produced  through  its  centering  on  evil 
such  gross  abuse,  that  the  defects  become  evident  and  their 
abolition  hastened.  Mysticism  is  a  cult  with  the  Normal.  It 
deals  with  the  normal  and  seeks  to  understand  the  causes  of 
the  abnormal  and  the  immoral.  It  expands  through  developing 
the  higher  normal  out  of  the  abnormal. 

The  extremely  abnormal  stage  of  our  culture  and  civiliza- 
tion has  reached  such  a  destructive  stage  that  we  are  searching 
for  the  real  causes  of  it,  and  the  effort  we  spend  in  transcend- 
ing to  the  causes  leads  us  automatically  to  the  Understanding 
of  the  cause  of  all  things  created.  It  leads  us  to  a  higher  under- 
standing and  a  higher  vision  of  the  Creative  Force  itself  and 
of  the  laws  and  principles  Avhich  govern  its  workings. 

In  order  to  understand  these  workings  a  high  degree  of 
Feeling,  or  aestheticism,  is  necessary,  which  enables  one  to  react 
unconsciously  against  the  abnormal,  and  thus  recognize  the 
higher  normal.  It  is  therefore  always  Feeling  and  Aestheti- 
cism to  which  we  do  wisely  to  yield,  and  the  tendency  of  the 
age  automatically  opens  the  path  to  such  development.  It  has 
recognized  and  developed  principles  which  lead  tO'  a  readier 
recognition  and  a  higher  development  of  Feeling  and  aesthet- 
icism. It  is  therefore  with  such  principles  with  which  the  teach- 
ings of  the  religion  and  art  of  the  future  is  concerned.  The 
means  are  practical  psychics,  constructive  creative  aesthetical 
occultism,  or  in  short  the  Development  of  creative  psychic 
powers.  All  that  can  be  embraced  in  a  positive  science  of 
Dsychology  forms  and  informs  our  Psyche,  and  forms  and  in- 
fornis  thereby  our  aestheticism  and  Feeling.    That  all  positive 


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sciences  reach  out  in  time  into  the  realms  of  the  occult  has  long 
been  recognized.  No  striving,  however  sincere,  can  obviate  this 
because  our  visioning  powers  increase  and  clamor  for  expres- 
sion despite  all  attempted  opposition.  The  trouble  is  that  we 
try  to  avoid  these  realms  because  they  demand  deeper  think- 
ing, and  we  are  taught  to  undervalue  our  mental  capabilities. 
As  we  become  more  familiar  with  the  processes  of  Life  and 
Mind  we  can  no  longer  be  intimidated  by  dread  of  what  further 
progress  may  disclose.  "We  gradually  but  inevitably  become 
accustomed  to  react  to  normal  impulses  and  to  remain  unmoved 
by  uncanny  fears  of  what  revelations  of  science  may  next  com- 
pel attention.  The  principles  of  the  religion  of  the  future  are 
the  purely  scientific  principles  of  the  Subliminal  Mind.  We 
see  in  such  sciences  as  higher  mathematics  how  visionary  power 
evolves  on  a  material  plane,  just  as  our  visualizing  power  in- 
creases with  the  study  of  electricity.  Their  evolution  is  marked 
by  the  invention  and  use  of  formulas,  signs  and  characters.  In 
religion,  art  and  mathematics  this  is  still  more  evident.  All 
Bciences  have  been  aided  by  the  means  of  vision  which  higher 
mathematics  has  developed.  Mysticism  creates  signs,  formulas 
and  characters  representative  of  higher  dimensional  Creative 
Rhythm.  Symbols  are  abstractions  of  rhythm  only.  Higher 
mathematics  would  have  been  impossible  without  the  conception 
of  realms  of  abstractions.  Religion  represents  the  first  forma- 
tion of  an  abstract  science,  and  all  positive  sciences  have  come 
out  of  reaction  against  abstract  and  alchemistic  sciences.  All 
depend  therefore  on  the  development  of  visionary  powers  which 
religion  has  initiated  through  fear  of  the  Unknown.  All  strive 
toward  cognition  of  the  Unknown,  but  with  distinct  signs 
and  formulas.  All  strive  for  an  understanding  of  the  Infinite, 
all  express  part  of  the  Infinite,  all  help  in  a  better  understanding 
of  it.  It  is  the  province  of  art  to  express  it  in  spiritual  form — 
that  is  in  higher  harmonious  Rythm.  All  strive  to  relieve  the 
strain  which  fear  has  placed  on  the  mind  in  order  that  every 
one  may  recognize  truth  for  himself.  Higher  mathematics, 
through  its  use  of  its  scientific  symbols,  has  reduced  the  pres- 
sure on  the  mind  whijch  religious  symbolism  had  produced,  and 
every  progress  in  positive  science  reduces  it  further.  Meta- 
psychics  however,  deals  with  subliminal  creative  and  mental 


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healing  processes:  a  reconciliation  of  science  with  religion. 
Metaphysics  has  thus  far  been  of  all  sciences  the  highest  anti- 
dote because  it  has  created  a  metaphysical  view  of  creation,  and 
we  can  best  express  higher  dimensional  things  scientifically 
with  the  aid  of  metaphysical  expressions  of  higher  dimensional 
vistas.  It  is  thus  that  we  arrive  at  the  interpretation  of  mysti- 
cal art  as  Fourth  Dimensional  art,  resultant  upon  reaction 
against  the  restricting  influence  of  fear.  Complete  reaction 
against  fear  cannot,  however,  come  except  by  way  of  complete 
revolution  of  visionary  power. 

All  intellectual  products  of  the  past,  including  the  products 
of  organized  religious  effort,  represent  restricting  forces  which 
create  and  increase  friction  and  pressure  on  the  mind.  They 
invite  the  inventor  and  the  artist  as  well  as  the  sociologist  to 
work  towards  decrease  of  friction  within  the  mind  and  between 
individuals.  They  invite  all  really  earnest  minds  to  increase 
their  critical  and  transcending  power — that  is  their  psychic 
effort,  which  is  aroused  through  unconscious  reaction  against 
restricting  influences.  Their  work  is  therefore  towards  enlight- 
enment of  mind,  and  their  work  represents  mental  healing, 
restoration  of  ease  and  surmounting  disease. 

Metaphysics  as  well  as  religion  differentiate  themselves  from 
metapsychics  through  the  effort  to  find  knowledge  and  vision 
of  the  Unknown  through  means  of  development  of  vision  on  the 
intellectual  plane.  Symbolism  in  art  and  religion  is  thus  striv- 
ing towards  the  material  plane  although  they  contain  elements 
of  spiritual  nature.  The  material  plane  is  a  necessary  stepping 
stone  from  the  subnormal  to  the  higher  normal  or  mystical.  The 
higher  normal  can  only  be  reached  through  Positive  Develop- 
ment of  Psyche  which  process  implies  the  substitution  of  su- 
perior for  inferior  vision.  This  leads  to  a  higher  vision  on  the 
material  plane  and  to  a  progress  in  inventions  and  sciences  in 
general.  These  processes  are  all  automatic  and  reciprocal.  The 
development  of  the  intellect  is  a  necessary  concomitant  just 
as  creative  activity  and  physical  training  are  necessary  pro- 
cesses on  their  respective  planes.  The  additional  training  of 
our  psychic  nature  makes  us  more  nearly  perfect — more  di- 
vinely creative,  and  makes  for  a  Greater  Humanity.  Psychic 
creativeness  or  ** spontaneous  creative  action"  as  it  may  be 


32  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

called,  can  be  developed  only  side  by  side  with  general  cre- 
ativeness — a  heedlessness  of  and  resistance  to  the  urge  to 
inventiveness,  experiment,  enterprise  and  adventure,  furnished 
the  excrementitious  compost  in  which  symbolism  found  rest. 
It  becomes  therefore  evident  why  our  modes  of  education 
have  not  perfected  our  culture  and  civilization  in  accordance 
with  the  demand  of  the  age.  The  world  war  is  only  a  sympto- 
matic incident  of  the  neglect  to  develop  Psyche  to  meet  the 
requirements  of  the  era.  It  takes  such  a  catastrophe  as  a 
world  war  and  perhaps  still  more  bloody  revolutions  to  blow 
our  shallow  culture  and  civilization  from  the  face  of  the  earth. 
The  evolutionary  process  occasionally  manifests  in  catas- 
trophic upheavals  as  evidence  that  organic  growth  is  not  the 
result  of  mere  adaptation  and  leisurely  reformation.  Human 
society  has  lost  its  equilibrium  and  must  attain  a  higher 
status.  The  process  becomes  clearer  as  we  approach  the  cata- 
clysm. The  futility  of  our  educational  experiments  hitherto, 
the  invalidity  of  the  philosophical  and  theological  percepts 
and  of  the  pseudo-scientific  maxims  of  a  shallow  materialism 
account  for  the  distorted  interpretation  of  Life — and  the  pen- 
alty for  futility  confronts  us  in  such  hellish  outbursts  as  the 
devastations  and  brutalities  of  war.  Education  has  consisted 
of  contracting,  instead  of  expanding  that  power  of  projecting 
the  eager  and  discerning  transcendent  perceptions  of  the 
Imagination  to  serve  as  a  bridge  between  Cause  and  Effect. 
Because  of  this,  events  quite  inevitable  take  us  by  surprise. 
We  stifle  imagination  for  fear  of  what  may  be  disclosed,  and 
our  very  fear  provokes  disaster.  Fear  exercises  a  depression 
of  the  mind  which  calls  forth  an  increased  effort  far  out  of 
proportion  to  the  pressure.  If  this  pressure  is  not  removed 
through  an  increased  transcendental  Insight  and  a  clearer 
Vision  there  comes  an  explosion  which  is  destructive  instead 
of  creative.  The  excessive  accumulation  of  energy  produced 
in  our  age  must  be  directed  aright  through  higher  enlighten- 
ment on  spiritual  planes  or  it  leads  to  perversion.  A  credu- 
lous sluggishness  serves  to  relieve  the  pressure  for  a  while, 
but  decreases  self-control,  thus  diminishing  psychic  power. 
When,  at  length,  the  soporific  effects  of  a  too  easy  credulity 
have  worn  off,  it  is  found  that  we  have  paid  for  our  yielding 


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to  fear  at  the  cost  of  a  diminished  power  of  wholesome  self- 
suggestion.  Then  we  have  the  mob  spirit  in  action,  which 
theretofore  had  been  latent  but  not  absent.  Psychic  self-control 
is  the  result  of  well  cultivated  instincts  and  emotions  of  psychic 
origin  that  had  been  neglected.  The  mob  spirit  of  the  religi- 
ous fanatic,  of  the  aristocrat,  of  the  rabid  beneficiary  of  priv- 
ilege, differs  in  no  respect  from  the  mob  spirit  of  the  exploited 
classes.  This  mob  spirit  can  be  destroyed  only  through  a 
higher  application  of  the  emancipating  principle  of  love — 
itself  a  radiation  of  higher  vision  of  the  Creative  Force. 

On  the  other  hand,  every  effort  of  the  dominant  class  in 
any  community  to  restrict  and  suppress  and  pervert  a  subject 
class — ^usually  the  workers,  the  inventors,  the  useful  class — 
serves  to  stimulate  the  psychic  power  of  the  victims  of  sup- 
pression. The  emancipating  Principle  of  Love,  developed  out 
of  reaction  against  the  ludicrous  doctrine  of  fear,  can  no 
longer  be  checked  with  impunity.  The  contemplation  and 
the  knowledge  of  the  Emancipating  Principles  which  the  dif- 
ferent religions  excited,  represent  the  bright  spots  in  the  evo- 
lution of  mankind  from  the  domination  of  fear.  These  emanci- 
patory principles  were  not  postulated  by  the  disseminators 
of  theologies,  but  developed  in  spite  of  those  cults  of  super- 
stitions whose  office  was  the  conciliation  of  an  irascible  and 
ruthless  deity.  It  is  always  lack  of  visionary  power  of  our 
educators  and  leaders  through  which  wars  and  tragedies  are 
caused.  What  our  reactionary  forces  have  yet  to  learn  is  that 
they  cannot  keep  forever  the  vision  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven 
from  application  on  earth  through  maintaining  fear  and 
through  resorting  to  the  pagan  Hebrew-Babylonian  gospel  of 
original  sin  for  maintaining  of  their  power,  instead  of  culti- 
vating Christ's  gospel  of  Love  to  its  highest  possible  perfec- 
tion. This  can  only  be  accomplished  through  proclaiming  a 
religion  without  a  devil.  All  further  abuse  of  the  Creative 
Force  can  only  lead  to  a  higher  conception  and  a  higher  state 
of  love  in  the  end,  but  at  the  cost  of  intermediate  disaster  and 
ruin. 

The  logical  deference  to  the  Creative  Force  is  necessarily 
a  cult  of  Creativeness.    All  devil  cult  is  pagan,  subnormal  and 


34  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

immoral  just  as  all  abstinence  from  creativeness  is  immoral, 
because  it  decreases  consciousness  and  conscience. 

The  real  nature  of  the  Unknown  is  psychic  or  spiritual 
and  can  only  become  known  through  increase  of  creative 
capability  which  must  be  assisted  by  psychic  power.  The  Un- 
known increases  in  the  same  measure  as  humanity  increases 
it^  creative  psychic  power.  On  the  other  hand,  Truth  flees 
from  us  in  the  measure  that  we  neglect  to  solve  its  mystery 
through  enlightening  and  forming  our  psyche.  Or  in  other 
words :  Truth  becomes  more  fleeting  as  we  develop  onesidedly 
and  therefore  lopsidedly,  and  becomes  more  real  and  obvious 
to  the  extent  that  we  cultivate  our  psychic  power  as  well. 
We  cannot  solve  the  riddle  of  life  and  the  Creative  Force  with 
the  intellect  alone.  The  riddle  is  that  we  ourselves  are  the 
Unknown,  at  least  its  foremost  exponent.  As  we  develop 
physically,  mentally  and  psychically — symmetrically,  so  shall 
we  understand  the  riddle  of  the  Unknown  of  which  we  are  an 
inseparable  part.  In  the  very  same  measure  do  we  increase 
automatically  the  Unknown.  The  great  Unknown,  like  our 
individual  part  of  it,  is  always  far  in  advance  of  our  consci- 
ousness of  it.  The  riddle  can  only  be  solved  along  with  the 
development  and  understanding  of  Creative  Rythm,  the  prin- 
ciples of  which  are  exemplified  in  mystical  high  art.  It  can 
only  be  acquired  through  the  sincere  effort  to  Know  Oneself 
as  well  as  to  understand  one's  neighbor.  This  effort  leads 
to  the  relationship  which  exists  between  all  humanity  and 
all  created  objects  and  especially  to  the  contradistinguished 
psychic  relationship  between  humanity  and  the  fruitful  flower- 
ing of  verdant  nature.  These  different  relationships  have 
been  expounded  respectively  by  the  emancipators  of  the  West 
and  the  East,  by  Christ  and  Buddha.  The  study,  knowledge 
and  exercise  of  the  principles  which  the  different  religions 
and  beliefs  have  provoked  are  by  necessity  an  indispensible 
help,  because  they  represent  the  foremost  exponents  of  the 
collective  experience  of  the  human  race  toward  understand- 
ing of  the  Unknown,  and  its  relation  to  the  Known. 

This  continuity  of  progress  of  the  Unknown,  and  the  prog- 
ressive ascendency  of  humanity  to  a  higher  plane  of  consci- 
ousness and  a  readier  capacity  for  logic  has  manifested  in 


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higher  planes  of  art  expression.  What  was  symbolism  be- 
comes mysticism,  and  a  consequent  opening  up  of  higher  di- 
mensional realms  for  art  expression.  The  positive  science  of 
psychology  has  shorn  Supernaturalism,  Occultism  and  Mysti- 
cism of  their  chief  perplexity,  and  we  have  recognized  that 
the  principles  which  govern  creative  and  re-creative  psychic 
phenomena  are  the  principles  which  govern  th-e  Creative 
Force  itself.  With  the  increase  of  our  knowledge  of  the  prin- 
ciples which  govern  mysticism  and  higher  dimensional  phe- 
nomena in  general  we  have  become  acquainted  with  the  Super- 
natural, so  to  say.  It  has  lost  its  estranging  aspect  through 
exciting  our  interest,  and  thus  our  emotion  of  fear  is  sup- 
planted by  that  trusting  unafraidness — of  Love.  Herein  lies 
the  mystical  aspect  and  power  of  Interest,  Inquisitiveness,  At- 
tention and  Love  as  antidotes  against  fear  and  its  perverting 
influence. 

There  is  no  need  to  be  afraid  to  explore  higher  dimensional 
realms  no  more  than  we  need  to  be  afraid  to  explore  lower 
dimensional  or  subnormal  realms,  because  we  have  the  Un- 
known within  us  and  need  only  be  told  how  to  study  and  con- 
ceive its  workings  through  Experiment  and  Reflex  in  order 
to  develop  the  higher  out  of  the  lower. 

The  increase  of  perception  of  the  Creative  Force  has  al- 
ways depended  on  the  inspiration  of  the  artist,  and  we  have 
to  learn  from  him  how  to  perceive  it.  The  secret  lies  in  the 
creative  development  of  our  psyche,  and  the  power  of  per- 
ception depends  on  the  same  mental  attitude  which  the  mysti- 
cal artist  has  to  acquire  in  order  to  create  true  art  or  Higher 
Reality  as  it  is  called.  All  that  surrounds  us  and  that  we  per- 
ceive with  the  intellect  and  the  objective  senses  is  natural — 
or  Objective  Creation — Reality.  All  that  we  have  to  tran- 
scend with  the  psychical  or  spiritual  senses  is  Supernatural — 
or  Higher  Reality.  Pathological  psyche  creates  the  subnormal, 
which  the  mystic  h^s  to  re-create.  The  normal  process  is, 
however,  that  the  individual  re-creates  himself  through  tran- 
scendingf  the  causes  of  his  aberrations,  and  the  effort  which 
we  spend  on  transcending  and  Knowing  ourselves  is  **  Healing 
mental  and  bodily  sicknesses."  It  rests  in  the  inherent  power 
of  Self  Suggestion.     We  have  individually  neglected  to  de- 


36  CREATIVE    PSYCHICS 

velop  this  power  and  our  age  has  therefore  developed  the 
psychiatrist.  The  artist  and  mystic  are  essentially  psychi- 
atrists. Mysticism,  like  all  occult  phenomena,  is  so  intensely 
natural  that  it  is  supernatural.  Everyone  is  born  a  mystic, 
but  evolution  demands  that  he  lose  himself  in  experiment  into 
creative  and  procreative  processes,  acquiring  higher  Feeling 
and  higher  mystical  power  through  Rebirth  as  a  result  of 
inner  effort.  The  process  of  metamorphosis  of  the  individual 
demands  a  Reincarnation  of  the  Spirit  in  the  Flesh,  which 
makes  him  again  a  mystic. 

The  Natural  is  in  its  essence  Supernatural  because  it  has 
the  God  within  itself,  but  Fear  of  the  Unknown — engendered 
by  stifling  of  incentive,  inquisitiveness,  energy,  interest,  cre- 
ativeness,  and  general  discouragement  of  the  experimental 
urge — has  made  our  conception  of  It  perverse  and  anti-natural. 
The  moment  we  transcend  our  wrong  conception  of  it  and 
recognize  its  true  nature,  we  become  mystical  like  creation 
itself.  All  is  relative  only  and  planes  of  relativeness  imply 
different  planes  of  understanding.  Mysticism  is  a  transforma- 
tion of  planes  of  understanding  which  call  powers  into  action 
that  produce  automatically  something  higher  out  of  the  lower. 

The  mystery  is  simple  to  the  understanding  when  we  em- 
ploy comparative  analogy  and  imagination.  The  higher  di- 
mensional differs  as  much  from  the  lower  dimensional  as 
universal  ideals  differ  from  sectarian  ideals,  or  as  the  religions 
of  the  past  differ  from  a  universal  religion  of  the  future,  which 
latter  represents  an  organic  fusion  of  the  emancipating  princi- 
ples which  have  been  produced  along  with  different  religions 
and  beliefs.  Or  in  other  comparisons :  as  much  as  metaphysics 
differs  from  simple  mathematics,  or  a  positive  science  differs 
from  the  alchemy  of  the  middle  ages.  Higher  dimensional 
things  are  supernatural  because  they  are  of  psychic  nature 
and  origin.  That  process  develops  spontaneously,  but  a  most 
experimental  and  inquisitive  mind  must  dig  things  out  be- 
fore the  masses  become  aware  of  a  process  which  is  in  the 
making. 

The  mystical  mind  is  the  inquisitive  experimental  mind: 
the  spirit  of  the  inventor  plus  the  spirit  of  the  artist.  It  is  for 
us  to  flexily  accommodate  ourselves  to  the  Useful  which  the 


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one  invents  and  the  Beautiful  which  the  other  depicts.  We 
acquire  through  their  example  and  their  aid.  Whether  they 
will  it  or  not  they  are  leaders — they  together  reveal  to  us 
the  Creative  Force  in  action.  In  the  past  they  manifested 
through  their  work  alone,  their  more  or  less  tardy  followers 
profiting  from  it.  As  we  emerge  from  the  domination  of  Fear 
both  inventor  and  artist,  and  their  disciples  more  receptive 
of  the  significance  of  their  achievements,  our  knowledge  of 
the  Creative  Force  has  broadened  and  continues  to  expand. 
It  is  the  combined  inventive  and  artistic  spirit  which  must  be 
cultivated,  and  this  spirit  strives  after  universalization  of  all 
social  factors.  Humanity  becomes  higher  dimensional  as  it 
becomes  Universal.  The  mystical  mind  is  the  Universal  Mind. 
As  humanity  becomes  universal  in  that  measure  our  acts  and 
art  expressions  become  mystical.  Whether  the  changing  order 
accomplishes  its  inevitable  revolution  tranquilly  or  in  bloody 
turbulence  depends  on  the  contemporary  disposition  to  cling 
to  the  institutionalized  futilities  of  the  past,  or  fall  into  step 
with  the  pioneers  whose  mission  it  is  to  blaze  the  path  toward 
a  Unison  of  mankind  in  order  to  insure  a  higher  consciousness 
and  thus  a  higher  creativeness. 

It  is  therefore  universal  ideas,  ideals  and  principles  with 
which  the  teaching  of  mysticism  and  metapsychics  is  concerned, 
which  principles  conform  to  the  Creative  Force  or  God,  as 
we  are  used  to  call  it.  The  teaching  and  transcending  of  such 
principles  has  an  enlightening  and  levitating  influence  both  on 
the  individual  and  the  social  organism,  reducing  friction  and 
gravity  within  and  without.  It  decreases  the  molecular  weight 
of  the  individual  and  makes  him  easier  to  create.  Like  art 
and  invention  it  is:  *^ as  if  given." 

The  value  of  Metapsychics  and  creative  Mysticism  rests 
on  its  capability  to  increase  creative  efficiency  automatically, 
and  the  process  rests  on  the  self-evolving  principle  of  the  Uni- 
verse which  is  inherent  to  ourselves  and  to  the  universe.  The 
more  we  become  acquainted  with  the  workings  of  the  Creative 
Force  the  higher  creative  do  we  become,  because  our  Joy  of 
Action  increases  in  the  same  degree  as  the  Richness  and  Joy 
of  Life  increases  and  the  whole  process  depends  on  the  in- 


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terest  which  we  take  in  creative  processes,  as  well  as  in  all 
objects  of  creation. 

The  first  necessary  step  to  develop  mysticism  is  to  become 
acquainted  with  the  principles  and  facts  which  have  an  en- 
lightening influence  on  the  psyche  and  clear  our  vision  with- 
out which  we  cannot  form  and  inform  that  entity  of  ours,  and 
cannot  develop  it  normally.  The  actual  development  comes 
through  our  inner  effort  along  with  creative  activity.  Creative 
mysticism  differs  from  religious  mysticism,  which  is  created 
through  a-social  development  and  retiring  from  human  inter- 
course and  creativeness  more  or  less.  The  present  age  is  ad- 
verse to  the  development  of  purely  religious  mysticism,  be- 
cause we  cannot  return  to  a  purely,  a-logical,  state  of  mind. 
Its  time  is  passed  because  symbolism  has  broadened.  Human- 
ity has  with  greater  universal  intercourse  created  a  broader 
vision.  Unfortunately  most  of  our  becoming  mystics  fall  in 
the  course  of  development  into  the  mazes  of  spiritism  or  revert 
to  ascetic  ecstasy.  Ours  is  an  age  imbued  with  creative  prob- 
lems and  not  of  asceticism.  A-social  development,  which  for- 
merly led  to  transcendentalism  and  religious  mysticism,  leads 
today  to  perversion.  The  difference  must  be  made  clearer  in 
further  interpretations.  Creative  mysticism  is  the  broadest 
of  all  current  educational  problems,  and  all  the  foremost  edu- 
cators expound  its  principles  with  the  intent  to  develop  psychic 
creative  powers. 

In  order  to  develop  creative  mysticism  and  mysticism  in 
general  it  is  necessary  to  forget  and  revolutionize  one's  con- 
ventional culture  and  knowledge,  and  let  one's  psychic  self 
become  alive  through  fostering  its  activity.  Interest  in  hu- 
manity as  a  whole  and  in  individual  endeavor,  and  all  effort 
which  makes  for  greater  universalization  of  our  knowledge, 
are  all  that  is  needed  to  set  the  supernatural  machine  within 
us  in  motion.  As  all  spiritual  and  mystical  things  are  dis- 
tinctly problems  of  vision  and  imagination  these  latter  must  be 
improved  and  directed  toward  the  Whole  as  well  as  toward  its 
main  dual  aspects,  the  Useful  and  the  Beautiful  alike.  These 
latter  two  combine  in  the  whole  of  the  Great  Unknown.  There- 
in lies  the  mystical  aspect  of  "the  Creative  Force  in  Action." 
We  estrange  ourselves  from  the  Creative  Force  as  we  estrange 


METAPSYCHICS  39 

ourselves  from  either  the  Useful  or  the  Beautiful,  and  see 
it  in  symbols  only  with  attributes,  but  not  in  true  vision. 

All  symbols  are  crutches  for  lack  of  something  better.  As 
long  as  we  cannot  see  the  Unknown  in  Everything  our  vision 
of  it  must  be  defective.  When  we  once  grasp  the  Principle 
it  helps  like  a  vaulting  pole  to  swing  us  over  all  obstacles. 
Symbolism  restricts  the  visionary  grasp,  and  to  the  extent 
that  we  can  see  the  Useful  and  the  Beautiful — that  is  God — 
in  everything,  our  vision  of  it  increases  automatically,  and 
makes  our  acts  and  art  expression  conform  more  truly  in  rela- 
tivity with  it.  As  long  as  we  conceive  the  Unknown  as  the 
Unknowable  we  get  estranged  from  it  and  '^strain  our  eyes  in 
vain  in  the  dark,  because  we  see  without  loving,"  quoting  the 
saying  of  ancient  wisdom. 

It  is  Fear  which  keeps  humanity  in  bondage.  As  we  emerge 
from  that  bondage  therei  comes  into  our  consciousness  spon- 
taneously an  irresistible  apperception  of  the  principle  of  the 
Creative  Force.  This  cognition  becomes  more  vivid  with  the 
aid  of  self  suggestion  and  Affirmation  and  reasoning  through 
Feeling.  We  perceive  that  this  Creative  Principle  underlies 
all  evolution  in  any  science,  progress  and  success.  Its  cogni- 
tion demands  the  development  and  exercise  of  more  than  ordi- 
nary common  sense  on  the  plane  of  the  supernatural  as  well 
as  on  other  planes.  Our  reasoning  power  develops  coincidently 
with  the  expansion  of  our  phyche,  or  else  our  subjective  rea- 
soning is  as  mischievous  as  our  inductive  reasoning  process. 
Both  reciprocally  operative  lead  to  truth.  Our  philosophy  as 
well  as  religion  deduces  from  theoretical  principles  and  such 
abstract  dogmas  as  do  not  conform  to  creative  principles. 
Positive  philosophy  of  life  acknowledges  that  we  cannot  solve 
the  riddle  of  life  and  creation  with  the  intellect  alone,  nor 
solely  with  the  powers  of  the  psyche.  We  must  lose  fear  of 
abnormal  psychic  products  of  spiritual  life  and  spirit  mani- 
festations in  general,  in  order  to  develop  our  spiritual  self. 
This  necessitates  a  "clear  brain,"  or  better,  a  "cleared  brain 
focus  of  vision."  This  can  be  accomplished  only  through 
critical  clarifying  of  the  psyche  which  is  responsible  for  all 
vision  and  imagination,  together  with  the  materialization  of 
it  in  the  form  of  spirit  and  spiritual  expressions.     There  are 


40  CREATIVE    PSYCHICS 

countless  tendencies  to  get  our  brain  chambers  filled  with 
impressions  which  darken  our  brain  focus  of  vision,  Every 
single  impression  leaves  its  impress  in  our  nervous  system. 
But  it  is  much  more  difficult  to  disintegrate  the  abnormal  and 
unsatisfactory  impressions  and  winnow  from  out  of  their  em- 
barrassing multitude  a  few  good  visions  of  ''what  might  be." 
If  we  leave  undisturbed  our  wrong  and  undigested  concep- 
tions and  impressions  we  store  in  our  brain-cells  condensa- 
tions which  obscure  the  ''Light."  We  must  use  our  own  in- 
born transcendental  critical  power  to  discard  the  chimerical 
and  unfounded — to  UNLEARN,  as  modern  educational  science 
terms  it.  We  can  improve  only  through  unlearning,  and  the 
creating  of  "First-Hand  Knowledge"  as  the  knowledge  which 
comes  with  life  experiences  may  be  called.  We  can  get  first- 
hand knowledge  of  spiritual  things  only  through  developing 
our  psyche,  and  not  through  memorizing  and  repeating  the 
litanies  of  the  past. 

It  is  an  axiom  of  biology  that  with  the  complexity  of  our 
knowledge  individual  consciousness  must  be  increased  in  order 
that  the  Higher  will  no  longer  be  sacrificed  to  the  Lower.  Our 
present  culture  and  civilization  is  based  on  the  abuse  of  psychic 
power  and  "the  survival  of  the  most  cunning  and  the  brute." 
Those  who  could  not  abuse  and  would  not  adapt  themselves 
to  the  principle  that  only  the  brute  can  survive  found  no  room 
in  our  ethical  calendar  of  the  past.  It  is  quite  natural  that 
those  possessing  least  Feeling  manifest  the  least  scruples.  As 
the  Creative  power  is  invested  in  our  Psyche  or  Feeling-self 
it  is  evident  that  the  development  of  phychic  power  is  ob- 
structed through  educational  principles  which  conform  to 
the  principles  of  reactionary  forces,  but  not  with  the  progres- 
sive ones.  The  real  progress  in  human  evolution  exfoliates 
where  least  we  are  likely  to  expect  it. 

Our  present  day's  progress  toward  a  higher  culture  and 
civilization  is  caused  by  the  greater  universalization  of  our 
visualizing  power  which  process  represents  a  more  lucid  in- 
forming of  our  psyche  and  the  creating  of  a  higher  conscious- 
ness and,  in  consequence,  a  higher  conscience.  Universalization 
of  knowledge  brings  with  it  a  clearer  understanding  of  col- 
lective life  experiences  of  nations  and  races,  and  collective 


THE  PRINCIPLE  OP  EMANCIPATION  41 

experience  will  supersede  pseudo  theories  woven  by  the  ego- 
tism of  reactionary  forces.  Such  theories  represent  a  restrict- 
ing force  against  the  Enlightenment.  The  present  day's  de- 
mand is  for  theories  which  establish  their  validity  by  the  cri- 
terion of  positive  results.  A  religion  of  the  future  rests  solely 
on  its  positive  results,  and  these  results  depend  on  the  accept- 
ance of  and  reliance  upon  those  effective  principles  that  un- 
derlie the  Creative  Force. 


V 

THE  CREATIVE  FORCE,  ITS  PRIISrCIPLE,  AND 
THE  PRINCIPLE  OF  THE  EMANCIPA- 
TION OF  THE  AGE 

LIFE  AND  CREATION.  THE  WORLD  AND  THE 
CREATOR.  ARE  ONE  AND  THE  SAME  AND  SELF- 
EVOLVING.  Herein  lies  the  mystery  and  the  mystical  aspect 
of  life,  regeneration  and  evolution,  and  the  power  of  the 
divine  physical,  mental  and  sexual  creativeness  of  humanity. 
On  this  fact  rests  also  the  emancipating  power  of  the  Principle 
of  the  Creative  Force  which  the  transcendental  power  of  the 
age  has  evolved,  and  through  which  it  tries  to  conceive  and 
interpret  the  Very  Intent  of  the  Creative  Force  or  God.  Dif- 
ferent religions  have  created  various  abnormal  aspects  of  the 
Creative  Force  and  different  people  have  therefore  generated 
diverging  postulates  of  principles  of  emancipation.  The  dif- 
ference between  any  religion  and  its  principle  of  emancipation 
represents  a  Positive  Concept  with  no  reserve  or  qualifying 
contingency  which  would  leave  room  for  doubt  as  to  its  very 
nature  and  intent.  If  we  say  God  is  Love  we  say  there  is  no 
evil  In  God  nor  in  Love.  Religion,  on  the  other  hand,  teaches 
nevertheless  a  Principle  of  Evil  which  must  be  of  archaic  na- 
ture and  therefore  abnormal,  or  subnormal  as  psychology 
proves. 

The  principles  of  emancipation  which  have  been  brought  to 
light  along  with  the  evolution  of  religions  are  of  purified  or 
aesthetical  nature  and  their  strongest  appeal  is  directed  to- 


42  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

wards  the  purification  or  enlightenment  of  psychic  vision  and 
imagination.  Every  emancipating  principle  purifies  and  in- 
creases the  power  of  vision  as  collective  experience  and  posi- 
tive history  indicate,  while  the  archaic  dogmatic  side  of  re- 
ligion postulating  that  principle  remains  anti-social  and  anti- 
aesthetical.  With  the  advance  of  aestheticism  the  emancipat- 
ing principle  becomes  increasingly  operative,  while  the  retard- 
ing element  of  dogmatism  declines  constantly  toward  extinc- 
tion— requiring  extraordinary  drafts  on  credulity  in  order  to 
delay  inevitable  collapse.  The  emancipating  principles  are  the 
outgrowth  of  the  artistic  spirit;  the  Emancipators  have  been 
Artists.  Religious  evolution  is  fundamentally  art  revolution. 
Our  creative  power  increases  with,  and  in  consequence  of,  ex- 
panding and  extending  power  of  psychic  vision ;  and  with  the 
cognition  of  the  emancipating  principle  art  creativeness  as  well 
as  general  creativeness  increases.  The  reason  for  this  increase 
lies  in  the  fact  that  all  psychic  enlightenment  has  an  elevating 
and  levitating  effect,  which  makes  humanity  more  highly  crea- 
tive. At  the  root  of  all  creativeness  and  creation  is  a  working 
principle  we  call  God,  and,  as  the  conception  of  it  has  been 
evolving,  the  power  of  human  creativeness  has  become  more 
active.  It  is  evident  that  the  conception  of  the  emancipating 
principle  which  stands  for  the  Creative  Force  has  been  induced 
by  the  creative  part  of  humanity,  and  represents  also  the  eman- 
cipating principle  of  the  age.  The  fact  is  that  the  credit  for  it 
has  not  been  properly  attributed.  The  process  may  be  said  to 
be  reciprocally  compensatory.  The  principle  of  emancipation  is 
no  less  the  matrix  than  the  offspring  of  man's  conception  of 
the  Creative  Force.  Through  that  consecration  of  soul  that 
comes  from  the  casting  out  of  fear,  man  is  prompted  to  conform 
his  activities  to  principles  and  processes  that  he  instinctively 
feels  to  be  true — each  successful  outcome  of  this  ''unafraid- 
ness"  to  rely  on  the  Creative  Force  has  spurred  to  greater 
reliance,  each  forward  step  resulting  in  augmented  creative 
power.  In  other  phrase :  humanity  has  evolved  itself  automat- 
ically through  increase  of  its  own  creativeness  along  with  the 
increase  of  its  instinctive  Feeling  into  creative  processes.  This 
implies  that  humanity's  further  advance  in  creativeness  will 
be  similarly  attained  through  further  increase  of  feeling,  and 


THE  PRINCIPLE  OF  EMANCIPATION  43 

a  consequently  firmer  understanding  of  principles  which  govern 
all  creative  processes. 

The  principle  of  the  Creative  Force  mirrors  the  workings 
of  the  creative  Force  itself.  As  this  compensatory  process  be- 
comes increasingly  obvious  from  multiplying  aspects,  the  more 
securely  we  lay  hold  on  that  principle  the  more  competently 
creative  we  become.  Principles  reveal  themselves  to  the  most 
acute  aspiring  and  inspired  in  sharp  outline — more  vaguely  to 
many  sensitive  if  less  inquisitive  ones.  At  first  but  a  few  are 
animated  to  concentrate  on  the  most  diverse  creative  processes 
and  to  explore  and  chart  the  entrancing  vistas  they  are  gifted 
to  perceive.  Creative  concentration  leads  to  the  soul  of  things, 
as  it  increases  transcending  power,  and  thus  brings  enlighten- 
ment with  respect  of  the  Creative  Force.  The  cognition  of  an 
emancipating  principle  may  be  compared  to  discovery  of  wire- 
less radiography  or  the  invention  of  the  flying  machine  on 
which  many  inspired  minds  had  concentrated  before  a  culmina- 
tion resulted.  Like  any  invention  or  discovery  it  must  be  fur- 
ther evolved  and  developed.  All  is  "in  the  air"  so  to  say,  there 
being  always  many  inspired  minds  unconsciously  working  to- 
wards the  emancipation  of  humanity  just  as  other  reactionary 
minds  lacking  this  concentrating  purposefulness,  are  constantly 
busy  to  hinder.  The  fact  is :  the  creative  processes  need  to  be 
practiced  to  be  understood,  in  order  to  come  into  an  informed 
consciousness  of  the  Creative  Force. 

All  reliable  interpretations  of  the  Creative  Force,  or  God, 
depends  on  a  true  valuation  of  positive  principles  thus  far 
discovered.  Humanity  thanks  Christ  for  revealing  the  principle 
of  the  Creative  Force  as  Love.  This  principle  compelled  rec- 
ognition despite  the  extreme  anti-social  and  materialistic  age  to 
which  it  was  promulgated.  Its  development  is  the  result  of 
reaction  against  the  extreme  egotism  and  materialism  which 
the  preceding  age  had  developed  and  which  still  reigns.  This 
world  war  is  merely  the  beginning  of  a  revolutionary  move- 
ment which  can  only  end  when  antiquated  parts  of  our  teach- 
ings, which  have  perverted  our  conception  of  the  Creative 
Force,  are  repudiated.  As  yet  our  western  civilizations,  how- 
ever progressive,  remain  dominated  to  some  extent  by  the  sur- 
vival of  vestiges  of  Babylonian,  Assyrian,  Egyptian  and  Jew- 


44  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

isli  conceptions  of  religion.  Here  again  we  may  see  the  re- 
ciprocal interplay  of  tendencies.  A  slave  civilization  develops 
from  a  religion  in  which  fear  is  the  predominating  factor,  and 
pari  passu  a  slave  religion  develops  in  such  a  civilization. 
Such  principle  of  the  Creative  Force  as  Love  could  only  be 
developed  amid  conditions  where  Love  is  most  scorned  and  the 
procreative  faculty  most  abused.  The  same  emancipating  prin- 
ciple that  got  its  most  formidable  impetus  from  the  teachings 
of  Jesus,  was  present  in  the  religions  that  had  preceded  those 
revolutionary  utterances.  But  the  priests  of  those  earlier 
cults,  while  not  ignorant  of  that  principle,  preferred  to  min- 
imize its  importance,  where  it  was  not  more  expedient  to  either 
ignore,  or  forthrightly  to  resist,  its  claim.  It  was  scarcely  to 
be  expected  that  the  interests  that  thrived  upon  the  persistence 
of  the  fear-thought,  should  bestir  themselves  to  dispelling  fear. 
On  the  contrary,  the  merit  and  virtue  of  a  dread  of  the  Creative 
Force  was  constantly  extolled.  It  cannot  be  doubted  that 
among  the  master  class,  and  the  priesthood  that  ministered  to 
that  class,  there  was  a  recognition  of  Love  as  the  cohesive  force 
of  any  worth-while  social  relationship.  But,  like  the  master- 
class of  all  ages,  they  were  more  concerned  for  their  immediate 
privileges  than  for  the  remote  happiness  of  mankind  in  gen- 
eral. Nevertheless,  from  the  preachments  of  fear  sprouted  in 
the  minds  of  the  slave  class  the  consciousness  that  the  creative 
forces  manifesting  in  the  very  nature  of  things  were  benign. 
And  when  at  length  the  Nazarene  proclaimed  the  doctrine  that 
God  is  Love,  it  was  the  common  people  that  **  heard  Him 
gladly,"  for  they  were  gratified  to  have  confirmation  of  their 
own  consciousness  of  the  emancipatory  principle, — a  conscious- 
ness that  had,  in  a  vague  and  inarticulate  way,  permeated  the 
minds  of  man.  It  required  the  divine  daring  of  the  Nazarene 
to  bring  that  twilight  apprehension  to  full  light  of  day — to 
focus,  as  it  were,  the  hazy  concept  lurkingly  lingering  in  the 
hearts  of  the  people — to  give  it  coherence  and  stability. 

An  age  that  invents  the  powerful  motor  or  masters  the 
electric  current  and  studies  the  inner  working  of  the  atom  has 
naturally  a  quite  different  conception  of  creative  processes  and 
of  creative  forces  than  an  age  which  indolently  lags.  It  is 
an  axiom  in  human  evolution  that  the  most  forward  striving 


THE  PRINCIPLE  OF  EMANCIPATION  45 

and  inspired  minds,  which  are  naturally  the  most  sensitive 
minds,  evolve  within  themselves  that  part  of  Creative  Force 
which  is  most  abused  and  derided  at  the  time.  It  is  this  that 
emancipation  of  an  age  implies:  the  freeing  of  the  age  from 
its  particular  degradation.  Love,  however,  does  not  represent 
the  Whole  of  the  principle,  especially  not  to  a  symbolical  age, 
but  it  is  an  essential  element  of  it.  Love  is  at  the  root  of  all 
creativeness  and  is  a  prime  factor  in  the  awakening  and  devel- 
opment of  Feeling.  It  is  therefore  a  psychic  enlightening 
force,  spiritual  in  its  nature.  The  Creative  Force  is  always 
broader  and  deeper  than  our  conception  of  it.  It  is  repre- 
sented within  us  by  our  psyche  or  feeling  self  which  is  always 
ahead  of  our  intellectual  self,  and  in  the  measure  as  we  increase 
the  creativeness  of  our  psyche  do  we  increase  our  creativeness, 
as  well  as  the  conception  and  vision  of  the  emancipating  prin- 
ciple. The  progress  in  humanity  is  always  reciprocal.  Vision, 
feeling,  creativeness  increase  together  automatically,  one  helps 
the  other  just  as  our  hands  and  feet  and  our  senses  help  us 
reciprocally  to  climb  a  ladder  with  more  or  less  agility,  or  to 
climb  it  at  all.  Those  that  '^fear"  do  not  start  to  climb.  Love 
of  the  light  is  a  product  of  visionary  power.  Visionary  power 
is  the  product  of  our  Psyche  or  Feeling  Self,  which  in  turn 
means  an  increase  of  Aestheticism.  Thus  all  progress  is  of 
aesthetical  nature,  fundamentally  speaking,  and  to  the  extent 
that  we  increase  aesthetically  in  that  measure  do  we  increase 
our  conception  of  the  Creative  Force  automatically.  What  I 
wish  to  express  is  that  love  is  the  most  essential  part  of 
aestheticism  and  therefore  of  emancipation,  but  aestheticism 
must  aspire  to  greater  and  more  exalted  heights  and  express  it- 
self on  higher  and  higher  planes  unceasingly.  Every  emancipa- 
ting principle  has  both  a  creative  and  an  aesthetical  aspect,  and 
religion  must  become  in  time  a  cult  of  aestheticism  and  creative- 
ness. Religion  that  will  not  overcome  anti-aesthetical  tenden- 
cies incident  to  every  cult  of  negation  (or  devil-cult)  is  futile. 
Devil-cult  implies  a  cult  of  fear,  and  fear  reduces  creative 
power  to  a  lower  level.  Fear  saps  the  love  out  of  creativeness, 
rendering  it  impotent  to  generate  feeling  or  aestheticism.  The 
problem  of  the  religion  of  the  future  is  therefore  a  religion  of 
higher  creativeness,  or  a  cult  with  human  creativeness. 


46  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

It  was  among  slave-holding  races  that  the  emancipating 
principles  of  love  was  pronounced,  and  is  beginning  to  find 
recognition.  Amongst  people  unacquainted  with  slavery  there 
developed  other  principles  of  emancipation  because  their  orig- 
inal religious  conception  of  the  Creative  Force  and  creative 
as  well  as  procreative  processes  were  different.  We  have  to 
turn  our  attention  to  the  East  in  order  to  find  different  emanci- 
pating principles.  The  East  has  never  abused  and  degraded 
the  creativeness  of  humanity  to  such  a  degree  as  the  West, 
and  has  naturally  not  degraded  the  procreative  faculty,  woman- 
hood and  childhood,  so  much,  but  that  a  cult  of  love  and  an 
emancipation  through  love  could  be  developed  and  proclaimed. 
The  religion  of  thei  East  has  also  developed  a  cult  of  Fear  of 
the  Creative  Force,  but  it  was  Fear  of  Nature  rather  than  Fear 
of  Man.  This  fear  of  nature  created  subnormal  vision  of  an 
impersonal  aspect  of  the  Creative  Force,  and  a  symbolism  with 
nature.  The  emancipating  principle  of  the  East  is  therefore 
created  out  of  reaction  against  fear  of  nature,  whilst  the 
emancipating  principle  of  the  West  is  created  out  of  reaction 
against  fear  of  man.  The  principle  of  emancipation  of  the 
East  is  therefore  of  impersonal  aspect  and  grew  out  of  reaction 
against  an  impersonal  symbolical  high  art,  whilst  the  West 
has  still  to  react  against  a  personal  symbolical  art.  The  West 
has  not  yet  developed  a  high  art  with  nature  because  it  had 
never  developed  a  symbolical  or  subnormal  cult  with  nature, 
but  had  developed  a  subnormal  cult  with  man  and  a  subnormal 
or  symbolical  art  with  man. 

The  difference  of  the  emancipating  principle  of  the  East 
and  the  West  must  therefore  become  evident  as  we  come  to 
understand  art.  An  understanding  of  religion  demands  knowl- 
edge of  what  constitutes  art.  All  creation  is  art  creation.  The 
laws  that  govern  creation  govern  true  art.  We  cannot  define 
earlier  religions  unless  we  transcend  different  religions  and 
their  high  arts,  and  when  we  have  accomplished  this  we  know 
the  laws  that  govern  the  religion  and  art  of  the  future.  Nor 
can  we  interpret  art  and  religion  without  interpreting  life  and 
creation.  The  true  knowledge  and  vision  of  the  Creative  Force 
itself  is  a  natural  consequence.  Religion  is  the  result  of  sub- 
normal vision  caused  through  fear,  with  the  result  of  project- 


THE  PRINCIPLE  OF  EMANCIPATION  47 

ing  the  vision  of  the  Creative  Force  outside  of  oneself.  The 
greater  the  reaction  against  fear  the  purer  and  higher  the  art, 
and  love  increases  in  the  same  degree.  We  have  to  abolish  fear 
by  abolishing  a  religion  of  fear  and  replacing  it  by  a  religion 
of  love,  and  this  latter  will  be  an  aesthetic  cult  which  appeals 
to  the  psyche. 

The  East  has  evolved  its  principle  of  emancipation  along 
with  the  reaction  against  symbolism  and  symbolical  high  art 
with  nature,  which  principle  of  emancipation  is  fundamentally 
an  art  principle.  It  is  like  our  own  principle  of  emancipa- 
tion of  mystical  aesthetical  nature.  It  is  represented  as 
''Harmony,  Unity  and  Balance":  the  fundamental  principles 
governing  high  or  mystical  art.  The  evolution  and  disco^^ery 
of  this  Eastern  Principle  must  be  discussed  elsewhere.  We 
are  interested  in  the  principle  of  Love  which  Christ  proclaimed 
because  we  can  more  easily  trace  the  powers  which  obstructed 
its  evolution  as  well  as  those  which  advanced  it.  It  is  as  strange 
to  the  East  as  the  Eastern  principle  is  to  the  West. 

It  must  seem  quite  natural  that  a  principle  of  Love  must 
broaden  both  ways  in  the  course  of  evolution :  intellectually  and 
spiritually,  and  that  it  cannot  remain  a  dead  letter  forever. 
Why  have  nearly  two  thousand  years  of  so-called  Christian 
religion  engendered  more  prostitution  of  love  than  develops 
in  paganism  ?  And  why  has  the  great  striving  for  love  not  yet 
been  realized?  Love  cannot  be  developed  by  a  religion  which 
keeps  an  archaic  principle  of  fear  alive.  It  has  been  developed 
in  circles  which  make  for  fearless  research  into  creative  pro- 
cesses. Positive  science,  art,  invention,  sex  equality,  eugenics, 
all  work  for  greater  socialization  of  humanity  and  thefore  for 
a  more  progressive  civilization  and  aisthetization.  The  creative 
masses  have  advanced  civilization  in  spite  of  our  religion  of 
fear,  through  enlightenment  as  to  creative  processes.  There 
is  a  logical  reason  why  religion  which  bears  Christ's  name  has 
failed  to  respond  to  His  principle  of  Creative  Force.  Religion 
still  regards  sexual  things  as  unclean,  the  woman  as  still  soul- 
less, the  child  born  in  sin.  Relations  of  love  are  not  cultivated 
by  religion ;  on  the  contrary  we  are  enjoined  to  fear  the  most 
vital  exercise  of  love,  which  cannot  but  make  for  prostitution 
of  Love. 


48  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

That  fear  decreases  creativeness  has  been  proved  through 
the  increase  of  our  creativeness  since  the  weakening  authority 
of  religion.  Nations  which  remained  orthodox  have  fallen  far 
behind  their  more  enlightened  neighbors  in  industrial,  intel- 
lectual and  assthetical  development.  Religion  has  expounded 
the  imagined  creativeness  of  an  outside  god,  as  well  as  an  im- 
agined love  and  has  exalted  love  and  creativeness  as  abstrac- 
tions above,  beyond  and  foreign  to  human  love  and  creativeness. 
The  religion  of  the  future  expounds  the  creativeness  of  human- 
ity which  is  increased  through  love  of  humanity.  The  highest 
gospel  will  be  the  *'love  of  creativeness."  The  riddle  is  there- 
fore: What  has  the  manifestation  of  the  Creative  Force  to 
do  with  the  creativeness  of  humanity  and  what  has  the  love 
of  it  to  do  with  the  love  between  humanity  and  its  creativeness  ? 
The  religionist's  conception  of  God's  love  and  creativeness  is 
the  abstract  concept  of  human  love  and  creativeness  as  con- 
ceived by  such  as  think  lightly  or  condemningly  of  human 
love  and  procreative  processes.  The  prostitution  of  human 
love  and  reproduction  is  the  result  of  projecting  the  inborne 
creative  power  towards  an  extramundane  symbol  through  a 
perversion  of  the  conception  of  the  procreative  power  of  hu- 
manity. It  created  thus  an  abstract  conception  or  a  symbol  of 
the  Creative  Force.  A  symbol  is  always  an  abstract  desocial- 
ized  value.  As  our  symbol-worship  has  decreased  our  creative- 
ness has  increased.  The  symbol  has  lost  its  value  and  the  human 
personality  and  its  own  inborne  creativeness  took  preference. 
The  social  impetus  of  the  recent  past  has  already  found  en- 
lightenment through  collective  experiences  and  has  replaced 
a  w^orship  of  an  imagined  god  creativeness  for  a  worship  of 
human  creativeness.  The  abolition  of  slavery  and  the  respect 
for  the  creative  part  of  humanity  has  increased  a  thousandfold 
with  the  waning  conception  of  a  personal  god  belief.  The  fu- 
ture still  more  will  discard  the  symbol  for  tlie  reality  and  will 
create  a  positive^  science  which  represents  a  consecration  of 
soul  or  psyche  to  creative  ends.  It  replaces  a  worship  of  a 
symbol  through  an  increased  vision  of  inborne  occult  powers. 
This  implies  that  we  must  conceive  the  Creative  Force  in  action 
as  revealed  to  us  through  our  own  inner  consciousness.  The 
Creative  Force  reveals  itself  to  us  only  through  developing  our 


THE   PRINCIPLE    OF   EMANCIPATION  49 

own  creative  powers  to  the  fullest  extent,  and  that  implies  that 
we  develop  both  our  intellect  and  psyche,  and  both  in  harmony. 
Such  harmony  means  essentially  love.  It  proves  also  that  there 
can  be  nothing  evil  in  the  Creative  Force,  and  that  all  concep- 
tions of  evil  or  devil  originate  in  minds  too  undeveloped  to 
overcome  inertia.  In  a  very  important  sense  ''the  idle  mind  is 
the  devil's  workshop."  The  type  of  mind  that  abstains  from 
creativeness  develops  a  sense  of  dependence  and  fear.  Noth- 
ing of  progressive  value  can  emanate  from  such  sources.  Never- 
theless out  of  such  subnormal  perversion  of  psychic  power  comes 
an  impetus  of  revolt  that  inspires  the  more  dynamic  in,  the 
direction  of  greater  inventiveness  and  higher  creativeness.  On 
the  other  hand  all  creative  work  begets  confidence  in  oneself 
and  therefore  in  the  Creative  Force.  Thus  we  can  trace  the 
sourcs  of  emancipating  principles,  and  see  why  this  heaven- 
earth  is  still  a  foolhouse  instead  of  a  paradise.  Manifestly  sym- 
bolism denotes  an  unsound  conception  of  the  Creative  Force. 
Prostitution  of  love  and  of  creativeness  spring  from  the  same 
root. 

Our  entire  knowledge  and  wisdom  as  well  as  our  cultural 
products  are  so  utterly  confusing  that  it  becomes  evident  that 
it  takes  the  development  of  a  much  higher  consciousness  than 
our  educators  thus  far  have  developed.  The  real  meaning  of 
life  and  creation  escapes  the  psychically  and  physically  inactive. 
Their  inability  to  grasp  the  causes  of  evil  equals  their  failure  to 
understand  the  nature  of  evil,  and  as  well  as  the  nature  of  Good 
or  God  in  action.  Organized  religion,  aristocracy  and  militar- 
ism for  aggression  have  everything  in  common  and  little  to  dis- 
tinguish them  from  each  other.  All  three  represent  waste  which 
manifests  the  aspect  of  evil.  As  this  becomes  clear  waste  will 
be  avoided  and  the  substance  and  effort  employed  toAvard  ad- 
vancing in  the  direction  of  a  really  divine  state. 

Our  appraisal  of  the  principle  of  emancipation  must  be  en- 
larged and  broadened  in  order  to  become  increasingly  valid. 
We  must  look  into  the  nature  of  love  as  it  reveals  itself  in  all 
itsi  aspects.  Love  is  of  mystical  creative  nature,  a  mystical 
or  occult  process  which  neither  symbolism  nor  intellectual  sci- 
ence can  lucidly  understand  and  competently  interpret.  En- 
lightenment as  to  love  comes  like  all  occult  mystical  processes 


50  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

and  products  through  development  of  feeling,  that  is,  through 
psychic  discernment.  The  more  we  develop  the  one  the  more 
we  develop  automatically  the  other.  Love's  sex-expression  is 
the  highest  power  with  which  humanity  is  endowed  in  order 
to  promulge  its  feeling  into  life ;  and  feeling,  being  of  highest 
importance  it  must  follow  that  love  isi  an  a?sthetical  process 
which  reveals  the  laws  that  govern  all  evolution  of  life  and 
creation.  Besides  being  the  highest  creative  power  with  which 
humanity  is  endowed,  love  is  also  the  highest  illuminating  force, 
enlightening  feeling  and  developing  soul.  Whatever  therefore 
makes  for  enlightenment  must  lodge  in  that  great  principle 
of  the  Creative  Force  that  compels  to  the  conviction  that  GOD 
is  ENLIGHTENMENT  itself. 

It  is  upon  principles  which  make  for  Enlightenment  on 
which  the  religion  of  the  future  must  find  its  base.  Quite 
naturally  all  positive  sciences  contribute  to  it,  and  it  is  funda- 
mentally a  positive  science  of  religion  which  replaces  the  re- 
ligion of  the  past.  We  may  thank  the  non-creative  integers 
of  humanity  of  the  past  that  we  have  a  religion,  which,  though 
evolved  by  the  creative  factors  of  humanity,  has  derived  no  lit- 
tle stimulus  from  the  inactivity  of  the  indolent.  The  religion 
now  evolving  is  as  different  from  the  religion  of  the  past  as 
is  mediaeval  alchemy  from  modern  chemistry.  What  religion 
was  developed  out  of  the  past  is  upside  down  and  inside  out. 
The  religion  of  the  future  develops  the  God  Within.  This  posi- 
tive science  of  religion  has  as  many  aspects  as  its  principle 
of  emancipation.  The  social,  civic  and  economic  will  be  as 
vitally  affected  as  the  occult,  aesthetic  and  artistic  aspect.  The 
evolution  of  the  coming  religion  proceeds  upon  the  very  re- 
verse of  the  animating  purpose  of  earlier  religions :  the  restric- 
tion of  enlightenment. 

As  the  Creative  Force  represents  a  working  principle  which 
expresses  itself  in  the  makeup  of  every  created  object  and 
therefore  in  the  most  different  expressions  it  must  be  evident 
that  our  highest  acts  and  art  expressions  must  in  future  express 
and  reflect  that  principle.  As  it  is  expressed  in  all  individual 
life  so  too  is  it  destined  to  manifest  in  a  collective  universal 
understanding  of  that  principle.  In  other  words,  all  humanity 
must  reach  in  time  a  certain  mental  homogeneity.    The  genetic 


THE  PRINCIPLE   OP  EMANCIPATION  51 

and  specific  homogeneity  of  humanity  is  proved  by  the  fact 
that  reproductive  sexual  coition  is  not  only  possible  but  highly 
beneficial.  All  the  progress  of  humanity  has  manifested  through 
intermingling  of  blood  and  thought  alike.  All  real  progress  in 
culture  and  civilization,  and  thus  all  progress  of  humanity,  has 
been  increased  through  increased  intercourse.  Intellectual  and 
spiritual  homogeneity  of  humanity  will  come  in  spite  of  all 
those  reactionary  forces  which  in  the  past  have  hindered  it.  If 
it  cannot  come  in  peace  it  comes  through  war.  This  homo- 
geneity is  obviously  of  dual  nature  because  all  our  mentality  is 
dual,  that  is :  intellectual  or  scientific  on  the  one  hand,  and  spir- 
itual, that  is  psychic,  occult  or  mystical,  on  the  other.  This 
mental  duality  becomes  pronounced  as  both  the  counterparts 
become  developed.  The  more  universal  our  intellect  becomes 
the  more  universal  must  become  our  understanding  of  the  prin- 
ciple governing  our  psyche.  All  separation  of  humanity  has  led 
to  heterogeneity,  and  their  unification  must  lead  to  univer- 
ealization  and  a  homogeneity  of  a  higher  order. 

All  universalization  of  ideas  and  ideals  leads  to  higher  ideals 
and  to  a  universal  conception  of  the  Creative  Force.  The  pres- 
ent day's  trend  toward  a  universal  religion  through  teaching 
the  most  beneficial  ideas  and  ideals  that  all  religions  have  pro- 
duced, is  the  best  proof  that  humanity  is  not  going  to  follow 
the  religious  dogmatist  in  the  future.  To  become  acquainted 
with  other  religious  and  other  high  art  expressions  is  quite  nat- 
urally a  better  means  of  enlightenment  than  to  hear  only  one 
side  of  the  feud  which  keeps  humanity  fighting  each  other  on 
the  so-called  heavenly  plane.  We  long  for  an  Open  Forum 
whereon  to  settle  material  differences,  and  a  tribunal  in  which 
intellectual  differences  may  be  compared,  and  so,  in  perhaps 
some  similar  fashion  shall  we  learn  to  dispose  of  spiritual  dis- 
sension. The  better  wisdom  will  survive  just  as  it  survives  in 
positive  science. 

The  separation  of  humanity  into  castes  and  creeds  belonged 
to  an  era  of  fear  and  distrust.  Unity  and  harmony  and  mutual 
confidence  are  the  offsprings  of  love.  Every  incursion  into 
the  realms  of  the  supernatural  centers  on  ideas  which  blossom 
into  ideals.  They  must  necessarily  be  of  experimental  nature 
at  first,  and  must  stand  the  test  of  use  and  practice.    Cumula- 


52  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

tive  experience  indicates  that  they  are  pathological  first  and 
destroy  themselves  in  time,  and  out  of  reaction  and  re-creation 
rises  the  higher  ideal,  which  is  wholesome  and  can  evolve. 
This  evolutionary  process  with  consecutive  revolution  and  re- 
creation represents  always  a  greater  universalization.  We 
live  in  an  age  wherein  pathological  products  are  being  revo- 
lutionized; we  not  merely  reform  them,  because  all  reforming 
in  the  past  has  only  led  to  greater  obscuring  and  confusing 
of  the  truth. 

All  progress  in  culture  and  civilization  has  been  caused 
through  a  stern  revelation  of  pathological  processes,  and  the 
recognition  of  wholesome  principles.  This  progress  has  been 
won  by  the  revolutionist,  never  by  the  reformer.  We  are  all 
aware  that  on  the  development  of  positive  science  depends  the 
unification  of  humanity,  and  positive  science  of  psychology 
must  replace  the  negative  religion  of  the  past.  That  this  sci- 
ence, which  is  in  theJ  making,  has  shaken  the  foundation  of 
our  religion  to  the  very  depth  is  proof  of  its  efficiency.  All 
positive  psychic  development  disintegrates  psycho-pathological 
impresses  automatically;  all  improvement  of  occult  or  sub- 
jective powers  integrates,  that  is  re-incarnates  the  spirit  in 
the  flesh.  Religion  and  art  cover  only  part  of  the  wide  range 
of  spiritual  or  occult  processes,  but,  at  present,  the  most  prom- 
inent part.  The  future  will  take  even  greater  interest  in  the 
development  of  other  spiritual,  psychic  or  occult  phenomena 
and  processes.  The  understanding  of  the  manifold  occult  phe- 
nomena and  processes  leads  naturally  to  their  development. 
A  positive  science  of  religion  of  the  future  includes  their  de- 
velopment, because  they  make  for  higher  creativeness.  Re- 
ligion is  quite  naturally  the  cause  of  much  of  their  malforma- 
tion, but  just  as  religion  has  increased  our  power  of  vision 
through  creating  fear  so  has  it  also  evoked  other  psychic  or 
occult  powers  through  fear.  However,  such  perversions  help 
us  to  recognize  their  origin  and  purpose.  Humanity  has  never 
cognized  the  truth  until  after  disaster  had  resulted  from  its 
earlier  rejection.  It  was  re-cognized,  as  it  were,  after  cogni- 
tion had  been  denied.  That  religion  of  the  past  separated 
itself  from  normal  occult  processes  and  their  development  is 
only  natural,  and  a  logical  consequence  of  extraraundane  ex- 


THE  PRINCIPLE  OF  EMANCIPATION  53 

cursions  into  abstract  realms,  which  led  to  disregard  of  the 
laws  of  nature.  AVith  the  exhaustion  of  the  abstract  or  super- 
stitious realm  we  arrive  at  a  positive  science  which  makes  for 
a  study  of  the  laws  of  nature  which  must  also  be  the  laws  of 
the  Creative  Force.  Mystical  or  occult  creativeness  depends  on 
the  degree  to  which  we  transcend  the  principles  which  gov- 
ern the  Creative  Force.  This  transcending  process  develops 
us  automatically  as  repeatedly  stated.  We  cannot  expand  our 
own  creative  powers  without  expanding  the  Creative  Force 
within  us  and  our  conception  of  it.  We  cannot  develop  a  re- 
ligion of  the  future  without  transcending  what  religion  has 
generated  through  calling  forth  reaction.  Thus  we  enter  the 
realms  of  the  religion  of  the  future  through  better  under- 
standing of  the  religion  of  the  past,  because  we  need  some- 
thing pathological  and  spiritually  bewildering  in  order  to  ex- 
ercise and  increase  our  transcending  occult  powers.  All  effort 
exerted  in  transcending  any  psychic  phenomena  evokes  and 
increases  our  own  occult  or  mystical  powers.  All  such  tran- 
scending of  phenomena  which  deal  with  creative  processes 
serves  to  stimulate  the  psychic  entity,  thereby  promoting 
aestheticism  by  advancing  our  feeling  into  life  and  nature.  On 
the  other  hand  all  non-transcending  dwelling  on  extramundane 
and  symbolical  imagination  leads  to  the  reverse,  and  has  an 
anti-£Esthetical  effect.  It  is  always  with  an  increase  of  asstheti- 
cal  powers  with  which  we  have  to  deal  in  order  to  increase 
various  occult  powers  which  vary  in  diverse  individuals.  All 
religion  makes  for  destruction  of  inborn  and  original  individu- 
ality and  its  higher  or  spiritual  creativeness.  The  principle  of 
the  Creative  Force  is  of  aesthetical  nature  which  leads  in  time 
to  an  aesthetical  Weltanschauung, — an  aesthetical  appercep- 
tion of  the  universe. 

We  see  thus  that  our  psychic  entity  is  that  part  within  us 
which  makes  for  all  spiritual  and  spirit  expressions,  and  con- 
sequently for  freedom  of  self  expression  through  direct  psychic 
appeal.  Religion,  as  it  will  develop  henceforth,  must  com- 
prise a  science  capable  of  interpretation  by  positive  psychic 
laws,  and  will  lead  to  an  art  which  speaks  directly  and  affirma- 
tively to  the  psyche.  The  negative  intent  of  the  religion!  of 
the  past  resulted  in  a  religion  of  negative  concepts  and  must 


54  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

be  replaced  by  a  religion  and  an  art  with  positive  and  affirma- 
tive purpose.  It  is  therefore  evident  that  the  religion  of  the 
future  recognizes  only  a  positive  Creative  Force  with  positive 
principles,  and  strives  to  develop  a  Free  and  Positive  as  well 
as  Universal  Science,  and  its  logical  and  suitable  counterpart 
in  Art. 


VI 

WHAT  IS  MYSTICISM,  AND  WHAT  IS  A 
MYSTIC? 

Mysticism  is  today  a  positive  psychology  and  the  mystic  is 
a  psychist,  that  is  a  person  with  Insight  into  higher  creative 
processes.  The  aim  of  all  such  positive,  constructive  or  prac- 
tical psychology  is  dual:  to  interpret  psychical,  mystical  or 
spiritual  phenomena  and  to  discover  educational  principles 
which  lead  to  the  development  of  such  properties  and  qualities 
as  have  a  reconciliatory  recuperative  and  restoring  or  healing 
effect.  Its  aim  is  therefore  to  develop  Insight — the  result  of 
well-developed  power  of  Feeling  into  life  and  nature  and  into 
creative  processes  in  general.  The  development  of  such  Feel- 
ing has  a  positive  generative  and  re-creative  effect.  Thus  mys- 
ticism as  a  science  deals  with  the  development  of  various  modes 
of  creative  and  re-creative  expressions  and  especially  with 
mystical  or  psychic  art  expression,  besides  other  expressions  of 
soulful  life.  AH  these  various  terms  such  as  psychic,  spiritual, 
mystical,  occult,  magic  and  others  have  accumulated  through 
interchange  of  language  of  different  people,  but  all  aim  at  the 
interpretation  of  manifestations  of  psychic  origin.  They  all 
represent  spiritual  or  spirit  expressions,  but  as  religion  or 
spiritual  language  of  any  people  has  developed  along  with  its 
art  expression,  and  as  mysticism  and  mystical  art  is  developed 
out  of  Reaction  against  archaic  religions  and  their  art,  we  must 
apply  to  expressions  of  art  the  term  mysticism  proper.  We 
have,  however,  come  to  perceive  that  all  creation  is  funda- 
mentally of  the  same  nature  as  true  art  creation,  and  that  re- 
creative acts  are  truly  religious  acts,  since  we  have  developed 
practical  mysticism.     Creative  psychics  deals  with  practical 


WHAT  IS  A  MYSTIC?  55 

mysticism  as  exercised  in  all  walks  of  life.  We  enter  an  age 
of  practical  mysticism.  This  practical  mysticism  has  always 
existed,  although  not  recognized;  and  credit  has  heretofore 
been  given  to  the  non-creative  class  while  these  have  in  reality 
drawn  all  their  better  inspiration  from  the  creative  class. 

Art  expressions  represent  fundamentally  speaking  the  spir- 
itual utterances  of  the  people,  just  as  every  day  language  is 
the  means  of  interchange  of  its  workaday  thinking.  Every 
separate  people  and  race  has  developed  its  own  spiritual  con- 
ception, mode  of  expression  and  view  of  life  and  creation,  just 
as  every  climatic,  geographical,  geological  and  physiological 
condition  has  manifested  in  the  formation  of  character  inevi- 
table to  it.  With  the  interchange  of  the  respective  expressions, 
opinions,  ideals  and  ideas  the  people  of  one  country  become  bet- 
ter informed  than  any  single  nation  or  race  can  inform 
itself  alone.  Better  facilities  for  travel  and  communication 
have  enriched  our  means  of  expression.  Intellectual  Greece 
promulgated  our  intellectual  scientific  language,  and  we  have 
actually  accomplished  a  separation  of  intellectual  from  aesthet- 
ical  concepts,  which  earlier  peoples  had  but  dimly  sensed.  We 
have  become  more  dual  individually  as  we  have  progressed 
beyond  our  extramundane  religion.  Never  before  have  the 
lines  between  the  life  and  the  religion  of  any  peoples  been  so 
distinctly  drawn. 

Development  of  psyche  requires  specialized  study,  practice 
and  experiment,  quite  apart  from,  however  assisted  by,  the 
intellectual  urge.  Neither  religion  nor  scholarship  are 
equipped  to  form,  guide  or  direct  our  psyche  aright.  It  is  not 
to  reform  our  schools  and  religion  but  to  revolutionize  them, 
and  whatever  the  outcome,  the  effort  we  exert  in  revolutioniz- 
ing our  perverse  teaching  must  result  in  a  sprightlier  Insight. 
The  energy  so  devoted  enhances  our  critical  transcending  pow- 
ers, enabling  us  to  penetrate  to  the  causes  of  our  pagan  civ- 
ilization which  are  rooted  in  abnormal  psychic  development. 

As  the  terminology  of  science  allows  us  more  candid  dis- 
cussion of  creative  and  procreative  processes,  which  the  con- 
ventional language  and  culture  discountenances  and  would 
fain  prohibit,  it  represents  a  universal  language  and  universal 
means  of  exchange  of  opinions  and  ideas.     It  is  more  a  free 


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thought  language  which  the  forces  of  reaction  dare  not  boldly 
curb  while  they  do  not  hesitate  to  abridge  freedom  of  press  and 
speech  when  couched  in  conventional  language,  in  the  expecta- 
tion that  thought  is  to  be  denied  freedom  of  expression  by  such 
abridgement. 

With  the  expanding  universalization,  or  socialization,  of  a 
language  of  scientific  expression,  a  more  discriminating 
analysis  and  a  higher  criticism  evolves.  The  ''average  man" 
takes  less  for  granted  and  demands  cogent  support  for  every 
dogma.  Clashes  of  opinion  and  conviction  no  longer  center 
about  personalities,  nor  erudite  interpretations  of  ancient  docu- 
ments, with  their  baseless  hostilities ;  but  partake  of  the  spirit 
of  friendly  emulation,  which,  whatever  else  the  outcome, 
arouses  those  engaged  from  lethargic  indifference  and  conven- 
tional thinking,  and  contributes  toward  a  subconscious,  or 
psychic,  development  that  opens  the  mind  to  the  modern  or 
emancipatory  aspects  of  mysticism. 

A  positive  science  of  psychics  gives  to  old  and  misused 
terms  a  new  and  a  more  cogent  valuation.  Such  words  as 
mystical,  spiritual,  occult,  aesthetical  and  magical,  formerly 
employed  as  signifying  manifestations  of  an  anti-natural  char- 
acter, have  been  rescued  from  the  captivity  to  which  super- 
stition had  subjected  them,  and  have  become  useful  as  denot- 
ing phases  of  understanding  in  consonance  with  experience. 

Mysticism,  as  it  is  here  termed,  has  its  origin  in  ancient 
transcendentalism,  and  its  connotations  have  followed  the 
changes  that  religion  has  undergone.  It  represents  a  cult 
of  God  of  Unity  instead  of  a  religious  God  which  is  opposed 
by  a  devil.  It  is  essentially  a  cult  of  reconciliation  of  opposing 
concepts — a  reconciliation  that  arrives  at  **  organic  fusion  and 
growth"  of  which  we  do  not  know  the  process,  but  cognize  the 
principles  which  lead  to  its  development.  It  is  therefore  mys- 
tical just  as  the  electric  current  or  gravity  is  mystical.  Such 
mystical  cult  of  reconciliation  has  been  developed  since  ancient 
times  by  necessity  because  of  the  exaggeration  of  a  religious 
devil  cult  and  differences  between  and  within  diverse  religions. 

Arising  differences  of  opinion  as  regards  creation  and 
creator  resulted  in  schisms  in  different  religions.  Every  such 
Bchism  represents  the  turning  point  of  extra-mundane  religion 


WHAT  IS  A  MYSTIC?  57 

to  a  positive  religion,  and  a  revulsion  against  extra-mundane 
reverence.  This  is  a  necessary  revolution  because  every  excur- 
sion into  the  extra-mundane  fictitious  causes  greater  com- 
plexity of  opinion,  and  therefore  a  reaction  and  a  return  to  cis- 
worldly  affairs.  Thus  every  cult  of  other-worldly  powers  leads 
in  time  back  to  a  cult  of  human  creativeness  and  divinity  of 
humanity  itself.  The  fact  is  that  our  attention  is  drawn  away 
by  sheer  necessity  from  fictitious  speculations  into  practical 
channels  in  order  to  reconcile  what  had  led  to  hostility.  We 
come  therefore  today  back  to  a  cult  of  reality  of  life  and 
existence  instead  of  a  cult  of  speculations.  An  extra-mundane 
religious  cult  cannot  solve,  but  serves  rather  to  increase  quar- 
rels, and  we  come  back  from  a  cult  of  "There  and  Then"  to 
a  cult  of  ''Here  and  Now."  Such  mystical  cult  of  reconcilia- 
tion is  the  result  of  Insight  into  creative  processes,  and  is  a 
cult  of  human  creativeness,  which  is  necessitated  through  the 
increase  of  caste  and  class  distinctions  and  extends  to  every 
walk  of  life,  and  is  caused  through  reaction  against  supersti- 
tion. It  will  in  time  take  preference  over  extra-mundane  fic- 
titious religion  altogether.  Mysticism  is  no  longer  religious 
mysticism  as  in  the  past,  but  we  come  upon  the  becoming 
mystic  in  every  walk  of  life. 

The  mystic  of  today  is  the  artist  with  a  positive  philosophy 
of  life  engendered  by  a  deep  insight  into  life  and  nature,  an 
insight  of  psychic  nature,  which  by  necessity  demands  a  crit- 
ical enlightening  of  the  intellect  as  well.  Mysticism  is  an 
evolution  of  insight  through  revolution  of  one's  personality, 
thinking  and  character,  which  represents  broadening  of  vision 
and  indicates  radical  changes  in  one's  thinking.  Our  usual 
vision  and  thinking  is  by  necessity  conventional  and  habitual, 
and  being  largely  influenced  by  symbolism,  is  imposed  on  us 
by  hypnotism. 

The  mystic,  as  conceived  in  the  recent  past,  is  both  artist 
and  philosopher,  and  the  inborn  personality  and  originality, 
and  the  path  of  his  development  determines  whether  he  is  a 
mystical  artist  or  a  philosophic  mystic.  Each  has  arrived  at 
mysticism  through  a  positive  philosophy  of  life.  It  may  be 
said  of  all  of  them  that  ''their  art  expression  is  their  religion," 
just  as  the  practical  mystic's  creativeness  is  his  highest  reli- 


58  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

gious  expression.  All  mystics  have  this  in  common :  that  they 
are  ''social  universalists"  as  it  were.  They  are  revolutionists 
necessarily,  being  in  a  constant  state  of  reaction  against 
dogmatism,  formalism  and  arbitrary  abstractiveness.  To  com- 
pile a  list  of  contemporary  mystics  is  a  sheer  impossibility, 
for  your  practical  mystic  does  not  burst  into  prominence  in 
an  age  where  spiritual  things  are  still  regarded  as  other- 
worldly things,  and  are  separated  from  life  and  human 
creativeness. 

In  every  age  we  find  the  mystic  in  the  making — dominated 
more  or  less  by  vestiges  of  indoctrinated  training,  but  aspir- 
ing always  to  surmount  what  limits  the  understanding  to  the 
palpable  and  tangible,  and  soaring  into  realms  not  subject  to 
the  limitations  of  a  lower  dimensional  habit  of  investigation, 
bringing  back  rich  booty  for  the  intellect  to  play  with,  after 
its  timidities  had  been  allayed,  and  later — often  very  much 
later — to  work  with,  to  achieve  with — and  then,  still  later,  to 
claim  as  all  its  own. 

The  revolt  against  the  incongruities  imposed  upon  the 
human  spirit  by  the  dilapidated  conventionalism  of  a  discred- 
ited theology  is  not  to  be  stayed.  The  decrepit  survivals  of 
fear-inspired  theologies  are  everywhere  giving  way  before  the 
cheery  and  blithesome  joyousness  of  humanity  coming  into 
its  own ;  coming  with  a  new  appreciation  of  the  boundlessness 
of  its  inheritance  of  possibilities;  coming  with  song  and  love 
and  play  and  laughter — with  its  capacity  for  discerning  the 
whimsical,  the  sportive,  the  incongruous — with  a  sense  of 
humor  too  long  suppressed,  as  other  clamors  of  the  spirit  have 
been  suppressed. 

In  every  age,  in  every  race,  in  every  land  there  have  been 
those  sturdy  pioneers  of  mysticism  who  dauntlessly  rebelled 
against  a  rigid  conformity  to  current  ideals — or  the  lack  of 
them.  It  is  not  to  be  denied  that  intellect  has  played  an  im- 
portant role  in  man's  development.  The  mystic  does  not  ab- 
jure those  faculties  that  derive  their  exercise  from  dealing 
with  what  has  already  been  accomplished,  but  he  brings  into 
operation  a  capacity  for  insight  into  what  has  not  yet  been 
achieved.  He  accepts  the  entire  endowment  of  the  intellect, 
but  instead  of  stopping  there,  it  is  there  he  begins.     From 


WHAT  IS  A  MYSTIC?  69 

that  base  he  projects  the  tentacles  of  psyche,  giving  free  rein 
to  an  intrepid  inquisitiveness.  Awe  in  the  presence  of  the 
mystical  affects  both  the  intellect  and  the  feeling.  The  intel- 
lect, when  unsupported  by  mysticism,  is  overawed  by  what 
it  has  not  fathomed,  and  interprets  his  attitude  in  terms  of 
fear.  The  mystic,  on  the  other  hand,  while  conscious  of  awe, 
recognizes  in  the  awe-inspiring  an  invitation  to  explore,  a 
call  to  comradeship  with  those  higher  forces  that  yield  their 
secrets  to  the  loving  and  the  daring.  The  intellect  makes  a 
merit  of  excluding  what  is  not  yet  known,  tardily  and  grudg- 
ingly accepting  what  feeling  has  learnt  to  wrest  from  the 
whilom  unknown,  and  meanwhile  dismissing  rather  cavalierly 
and  arrogantly  as  unknowable  whatever  itself  has  not  yet 
been  adventurous  enough  to  penetrate. 

Mysticism,  without  disparaging  the  negative  merit  of  intel- 
lectual dogmatism,  recognizes  the  virtues  of  the  intellectual 
processes,  but  observes  that  it  is  only  in  copartnership  with, 
and  under  the  guidance  of  psychic  insight,  that  the  intellect 
becomes  efficient.  Indeed,  copartnership  is  scarcely  the  suit- 
able term  to  describe^  the  conjunction,  for,  after  all,  it  cannot 
escape  the  perception  that  it  is  the  instinctive,  the  intuitional, 
the  feeling  faculty  within  us  that  dominates.  It  may  rather 
be  said  that  it  is  the  feeling  that  seeks,  that  aspires,  that  per- 
forms, while  the  intellect  is  content  to  appraise.  It  is  the 
scales  on  which  the  miner  weighs  his  dust  after  the  arduous 
labor  of  panning  out  the  metal. 

Mysticism  implies  and  necessitates  ''freedom  of  self  ex- 
pression." It  is  "feeling  become  articulate."  As  the  age  is 
eager  to  discover  or  discern  a  mystic  it  is  fitting  here  that  a 
few  be  named,  without  undertaking  to  compile  a  list,  were 
that  task  possible.  Ever  since  Rousseau,  Europe  has  been  in 
the  throes  of  producing  mystics,  but  such  development  is  hin- 
dered and  suppressed  through  extreme  reactionary  forces. 
Nevertheless  the  list  of  men  who  have  developed  deep  insight 
is  legion.  Maurice  Maeterlinck  is  an  outstanding  living  ex- 
ample. The  elder  Tolstoy  was  a  mystic  in  whom  the  mysticism 
indigenous  to  earlier  religions  was  blended  with  that  of  the 
emancipation,  and  the  tendency  to  symbolism  so  predominated 
in  him  as  to  curb  his  effectiveness,  a  condition  quite  logical  in 


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a  period  of  transition;  just  as  Oliver  Lodge  and  some  others 
permitted  themselves  to  be  swayed  by  an  inclination  to 
spiritism. 

What  is  the  developing  of  a  positive  science  of  psychics 
other  than  the  indices  of  an  age  of  mysticism,  when  this  science 
once  becomes  fully  socialized  and  common  property?  It  has 
remained  for  America  to  produce  practical  mysticism  by  af- 
fording the  fecund  environment  for  a  luxuriant  flowering  of 
the  dawning  religion  of  the  future  and  its  concomitant  asethet- 
icism — its  new  courage  and  its  new  faith,  and  its  acceptance 
of  the  beckonings  of  the  unseen  forces  as  less  a  forbidding 
challenge  than  an  alluring  invitation. 

The  outstanding  determination  of  the  resolute  colonists 
who  formed  the  republic  was  to  tolerate  no  aristocracy, 
theocratic  or  political.  There  have  been  occasional  veerings 
that  bear  the  aspect  of  reaction,  especially  in  the  indifference 
to  the  presumptions  of  its  land  forestallers,  but  there  has  been 
no  reversal  and  there  will  not  be.  Whatever  the  temporary 
hindrances,  America  is  still  the  land  of  freest  opportunity, 
and  while  obstructions  to  entire  freedom  are  encountered, 
these  are  certain  to  be  removed.  A  people  that  have  once  de- 
clared that  they  will  not  permit  an  invasion  of  life  and  liberty 
nor  trammels  on  the  pursuit  of  happiness  may  suffer  some  re- 
strictions for  a  while,  but  they  have  only  to  become  aroused 
to  awareness  to  defend  themselves  against  encroachment. 
Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  and  Walt  Whitman  are  conspicuous 
exponents  of  mystical  insight.  Thomas  Edison  is  a  practical 
exemplification  of  the  creative  principle  of  mysticism.  Henry 
Ford  is  a  most  remarkable  mystical  mind  manifesting  in  a 
practical  adaptation  of  the  compensatory  principle  by  supply- 
ing the  age  with  what  it  needs  instead  of  abusing  it. 

John  Dewey,  the  pioneer  preacher  of  the  American  move- 
ment towards  civilization  and  education  through  play  and 
creativeness,  is  one  whose  work  will  do  much  for  the  impend- 
ing emancipation. 

In  ancient  times  such  mystics  were  regarded  by  the  masses 
as  gods  or  demi-gods  after  they  had  been  "discovered'*  by  the 
cognoscenti.  ,  The  recognition  of  the  practical  mystic  as  the 
genius  of  the  age  has  animated  in  America  numerous  indi- 


WHAT  IS  A  MYSTIC?  61 

vidual  educationary  endeavor  in  that  direction.  Such  attempts 
are  still  hampered  and  obstructed  by  our  self-satisfied  arrogant 
educators.  All  effort  towards  abolishing  unapplied  teaching 
and  against  the  hypnotizing  influence  of  preaching  increases 
automatically  the  psychic  creative  powers.  The  modem  mys- 
tic is  a  practical  man  of  affairs  and  altogether  represents  the 
creative  genius  of  the  age.  Independent  positive  journalism 
is  one  of  the  greatest  assets  of  our  age  which  lessens  the 
weight  of  the  millstones  which  the  past  has  fastened  upon  us. 
Our  independent  magazines,  for  which  America  is  justly 
record-breaking,  and  which  present  all  sides  to  the  public 
which,  seeks  in  enlightenment  its  salvation,  are  of  highest  gen- 
eral value.  There  are  others  which  are  especially  devoted  to 
phychic  insight  while  some  are  striving  in  their  several  ways 
to  deal  with  various  aspects  of  emancipation  of  humanity  from 
the  bondage  of  the  past.  We  cannot  get  our  insight  from  a 
few  sources  and  not  from  old  books,  but  alone  from  living 
thought  produced  by  the  most  forward  striving  minds.  Civic, 
economic,  social  and  political  matters  must  be  given  their 
share  as  well  as  what  pertains  to  the  life  of  the  spirit  and  its 
expression  in  aesthetjsm  and  art. 

The  evolution  of  mysticism  has  not  escaped  the  invasion 
of  the  mountebank  and  the  charlatan,  but  such  impostors  have, 
quite  unwittingly,  served  to  spur  to  genuine  endeavor  such 
as  are  capable  of  developing  critical  and  transcending  power 
instead  of  relying  on  a  shallow  belief  in  make-believe.  There 
has  been  exerted  along  with  religion  a  prodigious  influence  to 
arouse  these  powers  through  stimulating  curiosity  and  inquis- 
itiveness.  The  adroit  priest  in  ancient  Egypt  who  veiled 
** Nothing"  is  as  admirable  as  the  Buddhist  priest  and  Shinto 
guardian  who  places  a  mirror  or  a  crystal  to  represent  the 
Unknown,  and  leaves  all  to  the  imagination,  of  those  who  really 
seek  truth.  Oracles,  clair-voyance,  clair-audience,  clair- 
sentience,  telepathy  and  the  many  other  psychic  phenomena 
all  fall  under  the  realms  of  mysticism,  and  the  abuse  and  im- 
position which  are  practiced  side  by  side  with  true  develop- 
ment need  deter  none  from  developing  his  distinct  psychic 
power  which  every  individual  possesses  without  exception. 
Neglect  of  the  genuine,  because  of  the  presumptions  of  the 


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spurious  is  the  result  of  anti-social  teachings  which  prevents 
"feeling  to  become  articulate."  Our  spiritual  or  psychic 
senses  are  instinctive  extensions  of  our  objective  senses,  or, 
to  state  it  in  another  way,  all  our  objective  senses  are  only 
further  means  created  by  our  psyche  to  inform  itself. 

We  must  therefore  regard  religions  of  the  past  as  the  ini- 
tial attempt  to  solve  the  riddle  of  life  and  creation  by  experi- 
ment and  reflex  but  not  as  the  final  solution,  because  all  such 
early  effort  must  lead  into  the  extra-mundane  and  to  conven- 
tional habit  of  thought  and  custom,  but  not  to  exercise  our 
own  creativeness.  The  Creative  Force  is  not  a  habit-forming 
force,  but  just  the  reverse,  that  it :  a  force  which  divides  itself 
into  dual  contra-distinguished  forces  in  order  to  *' create  some- 
thing Higher  out  of  the  Lower."  It  is  thus  a  Re-creative 
Force  and  an  experimenting  force.  It  divides  itself  in  order 
to  create,  and  unites  to  re-create,  and  what  cannot  unite  again 
must  destroy  itself.  There  must  always  arise  mystical  minds 
which  through  developing  Insight  into  the  true  nature  of  Life 
and  Creation  produce  that  necessary  Common  Understanding 
which  leads  to  constructive  evolution  instead  of  a  destructive 
revolution.  The  examples  of  Sodom  and  Gommorrah,  of 
Babylon  and  Rome  teach  us  the  lesson  that  life  and  nature 
exert  a  self-evolving  experimenting  power  which  tries  to  solve 
its  problems  in  its  own  way,  which  we  can  ''feel,"  and  if  it 
does  not  succeed  we  destroy  ourselves  in  order  that  mankind 
can  repeat  the  experiment  again  and  again  until  we  are  taught 
the  necessary  lessons.  Every  effort  towards  greater  separate- 
ness  must  be  met  by  a  greater  striving  after  Unity,  and  the 
mystic  tries  to  solve  the  problem  the  age  demands  for  its 
emancipation. 

Emancipation  means  thus  the  pronouncing  of  a  cult  of  what 
had  been  neglected  or  suppressed,  which  must  follow  as  the 
necessary  means  of  restoring  the  balance  which  had  been  lost. 
A  cult  of  Cooperation  must  follow  a  cult  of  Separateness,  a 
cult  of  Externalization  must  lead  to  a  cult  of  Insight,  which 
brings  a  higher  conception  and  representation  of  the  Infinite. 
The  more  we  turn  away  from  nature,  the  more  must  the  suc- 
ceeding cult  center  on  the  simple  and  demonstrably  relative. 
A  cult  of  the  male  must  be  followed  by  a  higher  cult  of  the 


WHAT  IS  A  MYSTIC?  63 

feminine.  A  cult  of  sex  suppression  must  be  followed  by  a 
higher  cult  of  sex-evolvement.  The  further  we  have  gone  into 
the  negative,  abstract  and  unapplied,  the  stronger  must  be 
the  striving  after  the  applied  and  synthetic.  The  return  move- 
ment represents  always  a  revolution  and  a  reaching  out  to  a 
higher  plane  of  consciousness  and  expression. 

We  can  thus  clearly  recognize  from  collective  experiences 
East  and  West,  that  the  Creative  Force  itself  is  a  Principle,  and 
by  its  very  nature  must  be  Impersonal  and  Neutral,  and  is 
represented  to  our  conception  as  the  World-Soul,  of  which  our 
individual  soul  is  just  a  part  which  we  have  to  increase.  We 
evolve  the  Creative  Force  in  the  measure  as  we  evolve  our- 
selves. Our  soul  represents  the  God  in  Unity  while  our  dual 
planes  represent  it  in  action.  We  must  develop  our  dual  planes 
in  order  to  develop  soul  and  thus  increase  our  stabilizing  soul 
as  well  as  the  world-soul.  Soul  represents  the  gyrator,  so  to 
say,  which  draws  the  divided  dual  effort  together  to  united 
re-creative  action  again  and  again,  and  the  result  is  *' organic 
fusion  and  growth."  True  art,  like  all  true  creativeness,  is 
the  result  of  this  uniting  of  the  intellect  and  psyche  to  unite 
and  re-create  through  reflex  what  the  separate  planes  have 
prepared  through  experiment.  We  come  thus  back  to  regard 
all  true  creation  as  Art  Creation,  and  have  to  interpret  art  in 
order  to  understand  life  and  creation.  True  art  is  essentially 
the  representation  of  the  infinite  Creative  Force  or  God,  and 
must  represent  it  in  all  created  objects  in  a  manner  which  re- 
veals the  workings  of  it.  True  art  must  have  a  recuperative 
or  mystical  power  which  has  a  restoring  and  re-creating  effect 
on  the  mind  of  the  beholder.  Without  going  further  into  the 
nature  of  such  art  at  present  I  quote  Schelling's  definition  of 
Beauty  from  Tolstoy's  ''What  Is  Art?":  ''Beauty  is  the  rep- 
resentation of  the  Infinite  in  the  Finite.  And  the  chief  char- 
acter of  a  product  of  art  is  unconscious  infinity.  Art  is  the 
Union  of  the  subjective  and  the  objective  of  nature  and  reason, 
of  the  unconscious  with  the  conscious.  And  therefore  art  is 
the  highest  means  of  knowledge." 

How  this  art  creativeness  and  art  consciousness  may  be  de- 
veloped must  be  left  to  further  publications.  What  I  wish  to 
point  out  before  closing  is  to  submit  to  the  reader  the  follow- 


64  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

ing  consideration.  The  Creative  Force,  which  art  has  to  rep- 
resent in  all  created  objects,  must  bring  to  bear  relationship 
of  these  objects  to  each  other.  The  Creative  Force  in  re- 
creative action,  which  we  alone  can  represent,  reveals  itself  to 
us  always  as  contradistinguished  duality  and  pairs  of  duality, 
as  in  male  and  female  or  animal  and  plant.  The  ancient 
transcendentalists  teach  us  that  *'life  is  the  result  of  a  recon- 
ciliation of  pairs  of  opposites."  Plant  nature  is  the  psychical 
complement  to  animal  life  just  as  woman  is  the  psychical 
complementary  part  to  man.  Our  psyche  represents  the  plant 
self  within  us,  which  is  most  favorably  influenced  by  nature. 
Plant  nature  is  next  to  love  and  sex  expression  the  highest 
psychic  enlightening  power.  The  duty  of  both  is  **to  form  and 
inform  our  feeling  self*  and  thus  produce  insight.  The  fact 
is  that  ** truly  relative  art  with  nature"  alone  can  lead  to 
the  fundamentals  which  underly  all  true  art  expressions  and 
must  form  the  Insight  for  all  art  development.  We  cannot 
produce  true  art  without  practicing  an  art  **  truly  relative  to 
nature,"  or  what  must  be  called  **a  high  art  of  Landscape 
Gardening,"  because  verdant  and  flowering  nature  and  the 
fruitful  hillsides,  slopes  and  valleys  alone  provide  us  with  such 
*  living  plastic  material"  on  which  we  can  form  and  inform 
our  Psychic  Insight.  Only  through  such  complementary  prac- 
tice is  the  artist  enabled  to  produce  highest  art  creations. 

God,  the  Creative  Force,  the  World-Soul,  is  Unity,  Harmony, 
a  divine  Self -Unconscious  equipoise.  In  action  it  is  Sex  Force, 
the  two  complementary  parts  composing  the  united  Allness. 
The  dual  forces  comprising  the  Whole,  enter  our  understand- 
ing in  different  aspects — one,  the  Restricting,  the  other  the 
Enlightening,  force;  or,  as  the  Useful  and  the  Beautiful  re- 
spectively, the  first  in  this  duality  being  what  religion  has  called 
the  Positive  or  God,  the  other  Bad,  or  Evil.  In  other  parallel 
aspects  the  duality  appears  as  masculine  and  feminine,  or  as 
animal  and  plant  life,  or  as  social  and  aesthetical  respectively, 
the  former  embracing  the  civic  and  economic,  the  latter  the 
spiritual  or  artistic. 

Thus  the  masculine,  the  animal,  social,  civic  and  economic 
aspect  of  the  duality  stands  for  the  useful,  restricting  or  re- 
sisting intellectual  power,  and  the  feminine,  aesthetical,  artistic 


WHAT  IS  A  MYSTIC?  65 

for  the  beautiful  or  enlightening  phychic  part  of  the  duality. 
The  latter  being  the  inherent  and  inborne  higher  representa- 
tive of  the  '/Unity,"  the  former  the  part  separated  to  increase 
reciprocal  experience  and  thus  as  necessary  catalytic  Irritant 
to  regenerativeness  and  for  further  enlightenment  for  the  fem- 
inine or  psychic  part  within.  All  actual  regeneration  is  per- 
formed by  the  feminine  or  psychic  within  us,  which  is  not 
absent  in  the  male  but  overdominated  by  the  intellectual  part. 
In  the  feminine  sex  the  Psyche  is  predominant. 

It  is  by  such  symbolical  or  abstract  conceptions  as  God  and, 
Devil  that  religions  have  distorted  the  meaning  and  thwarted 
an  understanding  of  these  counterparts  of  Unity.  Theology 
exalted  the  Intellect  as  the  Good  and  decried  Psyche  as  Evil, 
thereby  degrading  the  Feminine  as  sinful  and  the  sex-impulse  as 
vile.  In  mathematics,  in  chemistry,  applied  electricity  and  the 
like,  the  religious  and  algebraic  symbols  and  signs,  such  as  posi- 
tive and  negative,  plus  and  minus,  have  already  found  revalua- 
tion in  a  more  valid  interpretation,  and  the  positive  science  of 
Psychics  shares  with  all  applied  sciences  the  higher  enlighten- 
ment due  to  this  advance.  Mysticism  too,  like  theology,  postu- 
lates dualism,  but  instead  of  seeking  to  suppress  either  aspect 
of  the  duality,  gives  equal  and  divine  importance  to  each.  The 
suppression  of  Instinct — as  contradistinguished  from  Intellect — 
served  really  to  emphasize  that  which  was  condemned,  thus 
accentuating  the  very  manifestations  against  which  it  most 
eloquently  inveighed.  Sex-precocity,  for  instance,  psychic  and 
especially  infantile  sexual  trauma,  polymorphous  perverse  and 
all  such  abnormal  states  which  psychology  comprises  under  the 
collective  name  of  infantilism  of  sexuality,  prevail  only  among 
peoples  to  whom  the  suppressive  endeavors  of  an  inverted  mora- 
listic thology  have  been  represented  as  the  acme  of  virtue.  The 
requisite  balance  can  be  restored  only  by  such  higher  recogni- 
tion as  increases  consciousness,  for  it  springs  from  a  restoration 
of  consciousness  which  had  been  lost.  The  Intellect,  being  the 
restricting  power  (owing  to  the  fallibility  and  limitation  of 
our  objective  senses)  must  recede  from  its  predominance  in 
our  culture  and  social  life,  and  accede  to  Psyche  its  proper 
status  as  the  higher  Enlightening  power. 

Primeval  mystical  ages  were  not  contaminated  with  subse- 


66  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

quently-developed  condemnation  of  sex-instinct.  Among  the 
ancient  Japanese  and  the  earlier  Scandian  races,  and  others, 
the  equality  of  the  feminine  was  never  denied ;  and  we,  in  the 
modern  revolution  against  medieval  monastic  asceticism,  are 
only  returning  to  a  higher  consciousness  of  a  fundamental  truth, 
after  having  developed  the  Intellect  far  above  the  stages  at- 
tained by  the  ancients. 

But  we  have  reached  the  line  of  demarcation  where  the 
power  of  the  intellect  ends.  Many  of  our  most  advanced  phi- 
losophers and  scientists  have  clearly  recognized  the  presence 
of  such  a  limitation,  but  few  of  them  have  as  yet  developed 
sufficient  Insight  into  creative  processes  as  to  be  able  to  cross 
the  Divide  into  the  realms  of  the  mystical.  It  is  for  them  to 
develop  mysticism  in  order  to  clarify  their  understanding,  just 
as  the  artist  must  do  who  aspires  to  produce  higher  art.  The 
power  of  expression  evolves  quite  spontaneously  through  the 
emancipation  of  the  psychic  nature  from  the  bondage  of  the  in- 
tellect. 

In  the  human  species  the  Female  is  the  higher  representa- 
tive of  the  Creative  Force,  as  plant  life  is  relatively  more  highly 
important  than  animal  life.  Primordial  life  was  bi-sexual. 
There  was  first  plant-animal  before  animal  life  was  segregated 
from  the  duality,  just  as  the  male  is  a  segregation  from  a  unified 
sex  duality.  Animal  life  cannot  exist  without  the  needful 
Vitamines  or  primeval  love-food  which  the  animal  cannot  pro- 
duce unaided. 

This  higher  creativeness  incident  to  the  feminine  principle 
enters  our  consciousness  as  *' psychic  enlightenment."  Nature- 
cult  and  sex-cult  are  expressions  the  development  of  which  is 
of  highest  importance  to  our  own  creativeness.  They  are  of 
psychic  importance  first  of  all,  and  the  cult  of  the  male  is  of 
intellectual  importance. 

Cognizance  of  these  relative  ** importances"  and  the  constant 
tendency  toward  equipoise  between  them,  which  is  *'in  the 
nature  of  things"  and  will  maintain  itself  if  not  subjected  to 
illogical  hindrance  and  suppression,  leads  to  the  understanding 
that  there  is  nothing  really  evil  in  nature  or  in  any  phase  of 
the  creative  process.  When  we  relegate  to  the  category  of  Evil 
any  aspect  of  the  relation  we  deny  ourselves  the  benfits  that 


HOW  TO  PRODUCE  A  MYSTIC  67 

a  clearer  understanding  would  confer.  We  get  unsatisfactory 
results  from  suppression  and  then  seek  a  remedy  in  further  sup- 
pression. Starting  with  a  cult  of  ^^evil"  we  proceed  to  a  cult 
of  Suppression,  and  the  latter  instead  of  discouraging  the 
former  only  serves  to  drive  it  into  subnormal  perversion. 
Necessarily  this  silly  canceling  contest  becomes  useful  by  its 
inefficacy  and  futility.  It  compels  an  inevitable  transvaluation 
that  applies  the  lever  to  a  higher  normal  state  in  which  Feeling, 
or  Psyche,  becomes  more  affirmatively  articulate. 


vn 

HOW  TO  PEODUCE  THE  MYSTIC 

It  is  only  in  recent  years  that  any  purposeful  effort  has 
been  made  to  teach  practical  mysticism  and  psychic  develop- 
ment. To  this  task  no  insignificant  number  of  profound 
analysts  have  earnestly  devoted  themselves;  and  a  growing 
number  of  publications  is  enlisted  in  the  work.  Their  aim  is 
to  arouse  psychic  power  and  use  it  as  the  lever  which  increases 
human  creativeness  in  manifold  directions,  quantitatively  and 
qualitatively,  in  opposition  to  suppression  by  brute  force.  The 
effort  was  not  the  outcome  of  organized  educational  endeavor 
of  long  privileged  standing,  but  has  come  in  opposition  to  it 
and  out  of  individual  effort  against  the  abuses  of  privileged 
and  governmentally  subsidized  schools  maintained  to  uphold 
1  rivileges  which  are  anti-social,  anti-natural  and  ^ 'anti-Christ- 
like.'* Creative  psychics  comes  as  a  reaction  against  the  prac- 
tice of  branding  human  flocks  like  cattle  in  early  youth,  as  fixed 
irrevocably  to  certain  castes,  creeds  and  orders;  and  against 
the  discarding  of  the  best  and  spiritually  richest  into  the  waste 
heap.  It  has  come  from  those  ''people  of  affairs"  "who  en- 
deavor to  make  an  art  out  of  their  life's  work."  It  has  come 
through  sympathetic  understanding  and  conceptual  inspira- 
tional individualized  insight.  It  has  come  through  aroused 
"cathartic  subjective"  power  and  out  of  reaction  against  the 
hypnotization  of  humanity  and  suppression  of  subjective  power. 


68  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

It  has  come  through  the  instinctive  emotional  desire  to  express 
the  deepest  unconscious  instincts  through  transcending  to  the 
**gist  of  things,"  and  to  the  mystical  occult  significance  of 
seemingly  insignificant  intuitive  discernment.  It  has  come 
through  the  active  manipulation  of  human  matter.  It  has  come 
through  the  inborne  desire  in  humanity  to  come  into  **  sub- 
jective telepathic  contact  and  intercourse"  with  other  lives, 
with  all  nature  and  the  cosmos. 

Mysticism  in  the  past  was  caused  through  interplay  of  op- 
posing concepts,  ideals  and  opinions  that  seemed  irreconcilable, 
and  the  same  still  holds  true  today.  Never  was  the  mystic  wel- 
come by  the  ruling  class  because  feeling  and  its  expression  was 
feared  by  those  who  had  been  acclaiming  the  intellect  as  the 
god,  stigmatizing  psyche  or  feeling  as  evil  and  of  the  devil. 

Until  very  recent  times  the  career  of  the  mystic  was  shad- 
owed by  the  tragedies  of  the  pyre,  the  cross  and  the  gibbet. 
This  was  to  be  expected,  for  nothing  is  so  calculated  to  arouse 
resentment  as  the  employment  of  power  that  transcends  the 
understanding  of  those  who  have  become  enfeebled  by  the  over- 
cultivation  of  the  weakest  side  of  humanity  and  all  life.  The 
plant  does  not  develop  it  at  all,  because  its  subjective  or  psychic 
entity  is  wholly  predominant.  The  plant  is  the  unconscious 
servant  of  animal  and  human  life.  Even  the  animal  has  little 
use  for  intellect.  Humanity  alone  has  developed  intellect  in 
a  remarkable  degree,  and  it  had  to  sacrifice  the  psyche  to  bring 
intellect  to  its  over-exalted  station.  Quite  naturally  this  one- 
sided development  reaches  a  limit,  and  the  restriction  imposed 
upon  human  progress  through  the  intellect  leads  to  an  awaken- 
ing of  the  powers  of  the  psyche.  The  child  is  not  born  with  a 
developed  intellect  but  with  a  strongly  pronounced  psyche  or 
feeling  self  which  however  cannot  express  itself  except  in  im- 
agination and  pretense.  It  is  this  psychic  power  of  imagination 
and  make  belief  which  is  responsible  for  all  our  religions  and 
arts  and  advance  in  creativeness  in  the  past,  nor  may  we  expect 
that  this  psychic  power  (and  its  products)  can  be  normal  from 
its  inception.  The  normal  can  only  come  from  reaction  against 
the  abnormal  and  it  is  always  a  higher  normal  which  must 
supplant  the  abnormal.  The  new-born  child  represents  the  un- 
conscious healing  and  regenerating  power  of  the  creative  force 


HOW  TO  PRODUCE  A  MYSTIC  69 

or  God  most  fully,  but  the  child  has  to  go  through  a  process  of 
transformation  aided  through  experiment,  practice  and  reflex, 
in  order  to  develop  its  divine  healing  and  regenerative  power 
to  such  an  extent  that  it  can,  when  developed,  emancipate  hu- 
manity from  its  errors  and  doubts,  and  reconcile  what  divides 
humanity.  Just  as  the  child  has  a  message  of  reconciliation 
so  has  the  mystic  the  same  message  only  in  different  degree ^and 
mode  of  expression.  The  power  of  both  the  child  and  the 
mystic  rests  on  'direct  appeal  to  feeling  and  the  direct  or 
psychic  apperception  of  truth. ' '  The  mystic  is  a  child  at  heart 
with  the  simple  and  elemental  power  of  direct  apperception  of 
truth  as  it  is  exercised  by  the  feminine  nature  instead  of  the 
detached  principles  or  abstract  propositions  of  the  masculine 
intellectual  mind.  It  is  the  opposition  which  distinguishes  the 
*'man  of  action"  from  the  ''man  of  thought." 

''Stone  walls  do  not  a  prison  make,  nor  iron  bars  a  cage" 
for  the  psychic.  He  learns  to  transcend  such  limitations.  It  is 
less  important  that  we  get  man  out  of  prison  than  the  prison 
out  of  man.  Formerly  every  estate  was  protected  by  stout 
walls.  Later  less  formidable  fences  surrounded  the  homes  of 
the  people.  Gradually  the  height  of  these  barriers  was  reduced, 
and  of  late  a  parapet  of  any  kind  is  a  rare  sight  in  our  cities. 
We  had  learned  to  transcend  fences  long  before  we  ceased 
building  them.  And  so,  too,  we  are  encompassing  the  mind  of 
childhood  and  of  youth  with  fewer  and  less  sturdy  restrictions, 
as  we  are  becoming  emancipated  from  the  old  theologic  dogma 
that  "all  that  pleases  must  be  vile."  Nevertheless  the  tyranny 
of  habit  will  continue  building  intellectual  fences,  and  each 
succeeding  generation  will  learn  to  apply  the  emancipatory 
principles  that  mysticism  promulgates,  and  will  transcend  all 
that  limits  humanity.  We  may  imagine  with  what  zeal  the 
Chinese  built  their  massive  wall,  but  the  imagination  balks  at 
the  possibility  of  a  like  undertaking  of  the  west  to  build  an 
intellectual  Chinese  wall.  We  have  been  taught  to  regard  the 
Far  Eastern  races  as  "inferior  peoples,"  yet  it  cannot  be  denied 
that  the  Japanese  in  particular  have  developed  a  remarkable 
power  of  transcending  and  reconciling  the  antinomies  of  the 
philosophies,  religions  and  the  religious  arts  of  China  and  India 
with  their  own.    To  transcend  such  antipodal  tendencies  is  the 


70  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

task  and  function  of  the  mystic.  Because  of  their  quaintness 
and  unique  peculiarity  of  charm  alone  the  Chinese  and  Japa- 
nese arts  are  an  indispensable  means  to  exercise  transcendental 
powers,  insight  and  vision,  but  their  extrinsic  value  lies  in  the 
fact  that  they  are  the  only  real  antipodal  spiritual  products 
which  humanity  has  produced  in  opposition  to  western  spirit- 
uality. There  is  also  much  of  antipodal  quality  in  East  Indian 
religion  and  philosophy,  but  not  in  high  art.  All  exercise  of 
transcending  powers  must  include  Japanese  Shinto  belief  and 
its  high  art  of  landscape  painting  and  landscape  gardening. 
Shinto  represents  a  religion  and  a  religious  art  with  nature 
just  as  India  and  the  West  has  a  religious  art  with  man.  The 
transcending  of  the  high  arts  of  both  the  personal  western 
and  the  impersonal  eastern  conception  alone  can  create  that 
necessary  complete  vision  of  the  whole  of  divinity.  We  stand 
in  this  age  at  the  threshold  of  ''that  far-off  divine  event"  when 
at  length  ''the  East  and  West  shall  meet" — and  the  common 
point  of  contact  is  destined  to  be  the  conjunction,  without 
obliteration  of  either,  of  art  ideals  that,  however  far  at  any 
time  apart  have  been  constantly  converging. 

Mysticism,  like  life  and  creation,  is  a  reconciliation  of  con- 
gruous opposites — the  reassembling  of  counterparts — the  meta- 
psychic  mating  of  the  achievements  of  the  intellectual  facul- 
ties with  their  transcendental  relativities  on  the  psychic  plane. 
Among  the  essential  factors  in  the  cultivation  of  a  mystic  are : 
Prenatal  predisposition — not  alone  of  the  immediate  parents — 
(the  maternal  factor  predominating)  but  of  an  ancestry  in 
which  the  emancipatory  tendency  has  been  progressive,  largely 
through  transfusion  of  blood  and  interchange  of  thought. 
Stimulation  of  the  critical  and  self-analytic  processes  in  early 
life,  not  necessarily  by  cultivation,  for  these  processes  are 
spontaneous  in  all  sentient  beings,  but  rather  by  refraining 
from  suppressing  or  discouraging  them  when  they  manifest  in 
the  growing  child.  To  answer  frankly  the  naive  question  of 
the  aspiring  mind  of  childhood  as  it  comes  into  perplexing  con- 
tact with  what  to  outward  appearances  are  antipodal  tenden- 
cies helps  the  child  to  find  reconciliations  of  divergent  opinions, 
ideals,  and  convictions,  whereby  it  develops  nature's  finer 
forces  as  these  strive  to  come  to  growth  in  his  consciousness. 


HOW  TO  PRODUCE  A  MYSTIC  71 

With  such  a  foundation  the  chjld-mind  develops  so  that 
later  in  life  it  becomes  constantly  less  difficult  to  transcend  the 
fundamental  principles  of  antipodal  religions  and  philosophies 
as  well  as  their  respective  art  expression;  and  to  develop  its 
own  philosophy  and  at  the  same  time  its  own  inborne  expres- 
sion in  conduct  and  art — that  is  its  '^  religious  expressions  in 
actions." 

The  mystic  or  psychic  nature  in  man  is  aroused  through 
an  awakening  of  enlightening  critical  aptitudes  which  set  the 
psychic  motor  into  action  to  draw  from  invisible  channels  that 
increased  energy  which  makes  him  produce  higher  quality  with 
greater  facility.  A  critical  enlightening  fact  at  the  right  time 
and  opportunity,  the  nature  of  which  has  been  obscured  to 
him  or  suppressed,  may  be  all  that  is  necessary  to  connect  the 
switch  with  the  unseen  forces  latent  in  the  individual,  which, 
when  aroused,  are  self-healing  and  self-regenerative.  The  in- 
terchange of  children  of  all  ages,  and  of  teachers  between  dif- 
ferent nations,  races  and  classes,  the  interchange  of  children 
between  town-living  and  country-dwelling  people  contribute 
to  educational  development.  Educational  progress  does  not 
come  from  the  study  of  reverence  and  textbooks  but  through 
an  awakening  out  of  the  illusion  of  desocialized  and  denatured 
value,  just  as  it  comes  with  the  release  from  the  fictitious  and 
the  acquiring  of  insight  into  the  ^' truly  relative  to  life  and 
nature." 

Work  w4th  nature,  gardening  and  flowers — a  cult  of  scen- 
eries, trees  and  plants,  leads  to  mysticism.  Mysticism  is  cre- 
ated by  the  poet  and  the  singer.  Religion  is  a  worship  of  the 
intellect  of  man,  and  is  created  by  the  architect  or  the 
''builders  mind."  Both  minds  developed  together  and  in  har- 
mony lead  to  mystical  insight  and  growth.  The  student's 
psychic  development  will  be  arrested  unless  he  learns  to  prac- 
tice his  critical  transcending  powers  on  all  kinds  of  problems 
and  conflicts :  civic,  social,  economical  as  well  as  aesthetieal  and 
artistic.  He  must  learn  to  react  unconsciously  against  the 
abnormal  and  unnatural,  and  to  draw  lessons  of  a  positive 
philosophy  of  life  from  his  own  life  experiences  and  to  draw 
them  from  little  things  and  little  happenings  in  order  to  be 
able  to  draw  them  also  from  big  events.    The  arousing  of  the 


72  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

critical  detective,  inquisitive  and  experimental  spirit  assures 
self-reliance  and  self-development.  Occasional  radical  changes 
in  environments,  surroundings  and  food  helps  to  bring  finer 
forces  into  action,  which  tend  to  further  growth. 

The  mystic  gives  to  the  intellectual  faculty  and  its  achieve- 
ments its  proper  valuation,  but  while  never  disparaging  these 
he  does  not  make  the  mistake  of  extravagant  ascriptions  to  it. 
He  makes  the  best  use  of  the  intellect,  because  he  knows  how 
to  employ  it  in  higher  dimensional  accord  with  insight,  and  in 
harmonious  balance  with  love.  He  conceives  and  interprets 
the  past  in  the  light  of  the  present,  thus  obtaining  glimpses  and 
visions  of  the  future,  which  faculty  the  sophisticated  habitual 
thinker  lacks. 

He  indulges  his  quickened  critical  powers  of  transcendental- 
ization  discarding  the  outworn  through  transcending  it.  He 
does  not  hesitate  to  cast  aside  what  had  been  useful  but  is  no 
longer  so.  His  feeling  is  not  tinctured  with  the  sentimentalism 
that  treasures  the  tool  that  has  served  its  purpose  and  can  serve 
no  longer;  any  more  than  nature  preserves  the  shell  in  which 
the  chick  was  housed  when  that  shelter  has  been  outlived;  no 
more  than  the  builder  permits  the  scaffolding  to  stand  when  the 
edifice  is  completed. 

The  development  of  the  mystic  has  been  suppressed  in  the 
past  just  as  the  child's  mind  has  been  fallaciously  appraised 
and  as  has  been  the  office  and  influence  of  the  feminine  nature. 
All  this  suppression  calls  for  a  higher  valuation  of  things  sup- 
pressed and  an  increased  application  of  inherent  human  powers 
and  forces.  There  is  no  difference  between  human  love,  sex 
love  and  love  of  the  creative  force  or  god,  and  between  god 
creativeness,  sexual  creativeness  and  human  creativeness.  A 
cult  with  the  human  body  and  its  physics  must  follow  a  hide- 
bound mistreatment  and  obstruction  of  physical  growth  just  as 
a  cult  of  athletics  and  team  play  must  follow  a  cult  of  war 
and  destruction,  and  a  cult  of  creativeness  a  cult  of  abstinence 
of  it.  The  new  cult  is  always  created  unconsciously  through 
birth  of  a  new  generation  which,  under  the  predestining  influ- 
ence of  the  mother  reacts  unconsciously  against  the  abnormal 
outworn  cult  and  lays  the  foundation  of  a  new  one.  The  prob- 
lem is  very  clear  when  we  consider  cause  and  effect.    The  result 


HOW  TO  PRODUCE  A  MYSTIC  73 

of  monastic  and  convent  life  finds  its  equivalent  in  bachelordom 
and  prostitution,  and  a  new  cult  of  womanhood  and  childhood 
must  lead  the  world  out  of  anti-natural  development,  just  as 
teamplay,  rhythm  and  folk  dancing,  physical  culture  and 
dramatic  social  play  must  be  unfolded  in  order  to  reconcile  the 
deep  distinctions  which  intercommunal,  national  and  interna- 
tional materialistic  brute  strife  has  engendered.  It  is  always 
the  mystical  spirit  of  an  age  which  produces  and  enlarges  such 
healing  cults  and  exercises  as  lead  to  increased  soulful  life. 

To  make  the  soul  alive  and  active  we  must  overcome  fear 
and  distrust,  and  thus  create  within  ourselves  a  self-conscious- 
ness and  self-will  of  psychic  or  ''subjective"  nature.  A  buoy- 
ant daring  is  indispensable  to  develop  insight  and  vision  which 
alone  can  form  positive  concepts  and  forthright  expression  of 
them. 

Who  is  to  blame  for  the  * '  hypnotizable  and  alcoholizable 
mob-spirit"  that  has  long  been  manifest  in  society?  Why 
blame  anyone  ?  Why  seek  some  convenient  scapegoat  that  shM 
carry  into  the  wilderness  the  burden  of  those  silly  antics  we 
have  learned  to  regard  as  our  sins?  Why  brood  in  retrospect 
over  the  rugged  steeps  behind?  Always  loom  higher  peaks 
beyond,  more  torrential  streams  to  cross — but  by  very  reason 
of  the  pains  of  the  pioneering  we  become  hardier  and  more 
resolute  to  front  what  lies  ahead.  Undaunted  and  undismayed 
the  mystic  of  our  day  draws  new  inspiration  from  what  his 
precursors  experienced,  and  what  he  has  learned  from  their 
labors. 

And  this  the  neophyte  in  mysticism  must  learn,  not  alone 
from  what  has  gone  before,  but  from  the  lessons  of  his  daily 
observation,  and  what  becomes  to  him  increasingly  clear  as  his 
insight  develops,  that  the  test  of  truth  is  liberty — that  the  say- 
ing ''the  truth  shall  make  you  free"  connotes  that  what  sup- 
presses and  restricts  the  creative  urge  cannot  be  truth.  As  the 
creative  force  manifests  in  sex  force,  in  love  force  and  in  art 
force  it  is  for  the  mystic-in-the-making  to  practice  these  forces 
in  their  several  aspects,  without  fear  that  the  exercise  of  life- 
impressed  creativeness  on  any  plane,  can  be  carried  to  a  harmful 
excess. 

Mysticism,  as  the  term  is  herein  used,  is  applied  psychics. 


74  CREATIVE   PSYCHICS 

That  the  designation  formerly  attached  to  the  inception  of  a 
primitive  percept  of  psychic  power  need  not  move  us  to  forego 
and  discard  a  useful  appellation.  Mysticism,  even  in  its  earliest 
aspects,  and  despite  its  crudities  and  its  '^entangling  alliances" 
with  that  body  of  primitive  guesses  that  comprise  ancient  the- 
ologies, laid  nevertheless  quite  a  secure  foundation  for  the 
science  it  has  become.  Indeed  those  alliances  were  at  no  time 
co-operative.  In  their  closest  relationships  they  never  clotured 
the  revolt  of  aestheticism  against  the  subnormal  and  fear- 
begotten  moralism  of  archaic  religions.  The  early  mystic,  in 
common  with  the  priest  of  his  time,  derived  what  influence  he 
exercised  from  the  proneness  of  the  people  to  yield  to  the  claims 
of  awe.  With  this  important  difference,  which  is  today  more 
pronounced  than  ever,  that  while  the  awe  inspired  by  the  priest 
was  instilled  by  fear,  the  awe  to  which  the  mystic  surrendered 
was  the  awe  of  admiration.  One  saw  in  the  environing  phe- 
nomena only  the  evidences  of  angry  and  vengeful  gods,  to  be 
appeased — the  other  the  benign  operation  of  a  harmonious 
system  to  be  comprehended.  One  a  destructive  power  to  be 
propitiated,  the  other  a  creative  force  to  be  understood.  The 
respective  influences  of  symbolism  and  aestheticism,  of  the 
clashing  tendencies  of  a  lop-sided  intellectualism  against  the 
dualism  in  which  the  psychic  and  intellectual  faculties  were 
each  assigned  its  appropriate  station,  have  been  treated  in  fore- 
going chapters,  and  are  referred  to  here  for  the  purpose  of 
insisting  that  even  from  its  groping  origin  mysticism  has  not 
veered  from  its  emancipatory  principles. 

Mysticism,  or  applied  psychics,  instead  of  adding  to  the 
realm  of  the  mysterious,  as  the  careless  might  infer,  has  quite 
the  opposite  office — that  of  revealing  what  had  been  hidden,  of 
liberating  what  had  been  shackled,  of  enlightening  what  had 
been  obscured.  It  is  the  result  of  ** satisfied  curiosity.'*  It 
takes  the  mystifying  and  bewildering  out  of  the  realms  of  the 
unknown  and  unseen  and  makes  it  positive,  creative,  regenera- 
tive and  healing.  Its  mission  is  therefore  the  opposite  of  sym- 
bolism, which  is  caused  through  ''unsatisfied  curiosity." 

Mysticism  manifests  in  "feeling  become  more  highly  articu- 
late."' The  mystic  does  not  appeal  to  the  crowd.  It  is  not  his 
concern  whether  those  of  his  own  generation  understand  him 


HOW  TO  PRODUCE  A  MYSTIC  75 

or  not.  His  is  a  universal  interpretation,  a  cosmic  apperception, 
an  aesthetical  *' Weltanschauung "  entirely  impersonal,  individ- 
ually content  with  what  advance  humanity  has  achieved. 
Whether  as  an  inventor,  a  constructor  or  an  artist  he  is  a  man 
of  action  inspired  by  a  vision  of  what  is  to  be ;  wherein  he  dif- 
fers from  those  who,  deriving  their  impetus  from  the  past  are 
content  with  the  ephemeral  applause  of  the  present. 

Mysticism  is  the  bringing  of  forces  and  energies  into  true 
creative  relationship  and  represents  an  incarnating  of  spirits 
which  had  become  dissociate  and  discarnate.  Thus  incarna- 
tion is  application  and  mysticism  is  applied  religion.  The 
mystic  artist  like  the  inventor  integrates  and  thus  incarnates 
spirits,  disintegrating  at  the  same  time  automatically  disso- 
ciated spirits  which  in  their  state  of  dissociation  are  harmful 
and  are  called  evil  spirits.  There  is  no  fundamental  differ- 
ence between  forces  in  life  and  in  matter.  In  life  these  forces 
are  more  highly  individualized,  spiritualized  and  aesthetized 
for  cooperation  of  bio-dynamic  and  bio-economic  nature,  that 
is  for  ** symbiotic  labor.'"'  The  inventor  harnesses  the  very 
same  forces  on  the  material  plane,  and  brings  them  thus  to 
application,  which  the  mystic  incarnates  and  thus  applies. 
Applied  forces  are  emancipated  forces;  nothing  can  be  ef- 
ficient when  wholly  unapplied.  The  process  of  emancipation 
is  a  process  of  reincarnation,  and  represents  an  emancipation 
of  finer  forces  from  the  restrictions  which  keep  them  from 
application.  Mysticism  represents  thus  an  emancipation  of 
humanity  from  education  which  keeps  it  indolent  and  ignorant 
of  finer  forces  through  unapplied  and  abstract  teaching.  It 
is  applied  God  creativeness,  the  conscious  development  of  the 
God  within,  and  is  in  opposition  to  religious  precepts  which 
teaches  abstinence  from  such  divine  creative  power,  substi- 
tuting praying  for  ''doing,"  leaving  to  a  fictitious  God  what 
one  ought  to  do  oneself  with  the  help  of  God  within,  causing 
dependence  through  preaching  fear  and  causing  worship  of 
dissociated  spirits  instead  of  integrating  and  applying  them. 


Meditations  and  Reflections 


True  religion  is  "healing  of  the  spiritual  mind,  or  the  psyche" 
just  as  true  philosophy  is  "healing  of  the  objective  mind  or  the  intel- 
lect." True  art  is  the  product  of  organic  fusion  of  a  cleared  intellect 
and  a  well-formed  and  informed  psyche,  and  possesses  highest  heal- 
ing powers. 


The  mother  is  the  highest  source  and  power  for  predestination 
and  all  that  is  wrong  with  our  destiny  and  fate  is  caused  by  the 
masculine  preoccupied  and  drifting  bewildered  mind.  The  whole  uni- 
verse and  all  stellar  constellation  we  have  within  us.  There  is  nothing 
outside  of  us  which  is  not  also  within  us,  and  our  stellar  constellation 
which  destines  our  happiness  and  usefulness  is  always  set  right  if  our 
parents  trust  and  believe  in  themselves.  Every  grave  doubt  in  the 
minds  of  the  parents  must  bring  with  it  by  necessity  a  wrong  con- 
stellation which  must  be  set  right  by  the  increased  effort  of  the  indi- 
vidual through  acquiring  higher  wisdom  and  feeling:  the  law  of  com- 
pensation through  reconciliation. 


All  demand  for  stimulants  and  intoxicants  originates  in  the  sup- 
pression of  psychic  power  and  as  means  to  open  the  threshold  of  the 
unconscious  self.  The  excesses  in  the  use  of  stimulants  and  intoxicants 
and  their  ill  effects,  the  hypnotizable  and  alcoholizable  mob  spirit, 
will  disappear  with  the  depreciation  of  a  cult  of  fear  and  dependence 
and  of  all  those  forces  like  militarism  which  make  for  fear,  just  as 
prostitution  will  disappear  in  the  same  degree.  All  our  religious  and 
philosophical  dogmas,  like  all  our  laws,  are  made  under  the  influence 
of  alcohol,  fear  and  dependence. 


On  the  coming  into  contact  with  and  transcending  the  Feelings 
and  Ideas  of  strangers  and  foreigners  depends  the  arousing  of  our  own 
critical  powers  and  creative  psychic  development,  because  otherwise 
we  do  not  even  understand  our  own  Feelings  and  Ideas,  nor  do  we 
know  ourselves. 


Creative  Psychics  is  the  art  of  divine  or  superhuman  efficiency 
and  the  science  of  dynamic  relationship. 


MEDITATIONS    AND    REFLECTIONS  77 

Intuition  and  Revelations  are  the  result  of  "aesthetically  trained 
instinct." 


Psychic  creativeness  is  unself-conscious  creativeness  or  God 
creativeness  and  is  the  result  of  equipoise — an  automatic  harmonic 
poise — an  effortless  quiescence  representing  the  reconciliation  between 
Being  and  Becoming. 


True  art  production,  like  true  religion  ,and  like  true  philosophy 
is  the  result  of  personal  mental  revolution,  and  like  the  latter  pos- 
sesses healing  powers. 


Symbolical  and  realistic  art  are  the  results  of  "inquisitiveness 
and  curiosity  unsatisfied  and  suppressed." 


There  is  no  higher  art  than  a  truly  relative  art  with  flowering 
gardens  and  verdant  landscapes,  because  it  is  susceptible  of  transcend- 
ing the  limitations  that  are  placed  on  all  other  arts  and  art  expressions. 


What  distinguishes  a  mystical,  that  is  a  re-creative  art,  from 
others,  isf  that  the  Infinite  is  represented  in  re-generative  action  as: 
Force  and  Energy  represented  by  Character;  and  Space  and  Time, 
symbolized  in  harmonizing  Rhythm  of  Motion;  subjective  reality,  rep- 
resented in  a  higher  dimensional  impersonal  representation  of  objective 
reality;  the  Maker  represented  as  a  regenerative  force,  calling  the 
spirit  of  Harmony  and  Common  Understanding  out  of  discord  and 
intolerance. 


Religion  of  the  future  is  developing  through  the  orientation  of  the 
arts  and  the  sciences  by  the  principles  of  emancipation. 


Healing  power,  mental  and  psychic,  is  a  manifestation  of  Feeling 
become  active  and  articulate. 


Pathological  psychic  development  is  the  result  of  obstructions  to 
"Feeling  seeking  expression."  Unless  we  develop  the  psychic  exten- 
sion of  the  senses  we  invite  disease,  disorder,  derangement,  and  from 
these  arise  Hate,  terminating  in  destruction  and  self-destruction. 


78  MEDITATIONS    AND    REFLECTIONS 

Japan  and  America  are  the  only  countries  which  during  the  last 
fifteen  hundred  years  have  produced  an  advance  in  religion  through 
developing  mental  healing  arts  and  sciences  respectively. 


To  become  really  religious  one  has  to  enjoy  what  beautiful  has 
come  out  of  all  religions  and  must  not  adhere  to  a  single  creed. 


We  cannot  separate  our  conceptions  of  religion  from  our  con- 
ceptions of  life  and  nature,  nor  from  our  acts  and  art  expressions 
and  from  our  philosophy  without  necessitating  a  complete  inner  revo- 
lution and  rebirth,  and  acquire  through  this  a  positive  and  affirmative 
religion  and  direct  expression  of  truth  in  our  actions,  philosophy  and 
art. 


Religion  says:  civic,  social  and  economical  affairs  have  nothing 
at  all  to  do  with  spiritual  things  which  are  supposed  to  be  extra 
mundane  and  other-worldly  things.  Creative,  practical  mysticism 
says:  they  have  to  do  with  it  "all  there  is." 


Truth  must  be  born  anew  every  day.  It  can  only  come  from 
reconciliation  and  organic  fusion  of  opposing  opinions,  ideals  and  ideas, 
and  thus  represents  a  solution  of  seemingly  unsolvable  and  unrecon- 
cilable  differences,  and  an  emancipation. 


There  must  always  be  minds  willing  to  supply  humanity  with  the 
"lever"  which  increases  its  power  of  creativeness  manifold.  This  lever 
is  "Enlightenment,"  which  is  also  the  Master  Idea"  of  the  Creative 
Force  or  God.  There  are  two  kinds  of  enlightenment:  intellectual  and 
psychic.  The  latter  is  Divine  enlightenment.  Sex  enlightenment,  sex 
expression  are  together  with  the  intercourse  with  verdant  flowering 
nature  and  landscape  of  the  highest  Divine  enlightening  importance. 


Humanity  has  created  itself  and  has  to  raise  itself  higher  through 
increasing  its  psychic  power. 


The  science  of  Emancipation  connotes  a  process  of  discarding  the 
chimerical,  "unlearning"  the  maxims  taught  by  intellectual  fearsome- 
ness,  and  relying  on  the  Regenerative  principle;  just  as  the  art  of 
Emancipation  is  the  art  of  Regeneration. 


MEDITATIONS    ANJ?.  .I^.l^tj^ISCTioife*.  T'-!  VA'',         79 

The  universe  is  governed  by  psychic  laAVS,  and  the  laws  that 
govern  our  psychic  plane  and  psychic  phenomena  in  general  govern 
also  the  Creative  Force  or  God. 


The  laws  of  psychic  phenomena  decree  that  all  cults,  culture  and 
civilization  which  are  based  on  exploitation  and  abuse  must  destroy 
themselves  and  give  way  to  higher  planes  of  cooperation.  No  creed 
can  keep  part  of  humanity  in  dependence  and  therefore  in  the  gutter 
"without  staying  there  itself." 


The  law  of  reciprocation  and  retribution:  All  evolution  of  life  and 
creation  is  reciprocal,  that  is  symbio-genetic  and  psycho-genetic.  It 
is  reciprocal  progressive  differentiation  and  specialization  for  "evolu- 
tion through  cooperation,"  the  material  law  of  gravity  superseded  by 
the  spiritual  law  of  reciprocity. 


Mysticism,  like  truth,  implies  and  necessitates  full  freedom  of  self- 
expression,  free  speech  and  free  press  and  as  result  free  thought. 
All  tragedies  of  nations,  races  and  individuals  are  caused  through  sup- 
pression of  mystical  or  psychic  development — from  ancient  Egypt, 
Babylon  and  Greece  down  to  our  own  great  tragedy  of  a  world  war. 
All  are  caused  essentially  through  suppression  of  Truth,  which  can 
only  be  revealed  where  press  and  speech  are  as  free  as  the  air  and 
the  sunlight. 


The  principles  of  organic  fusion  and  spontaneous  creative  action 
are  the  principles  of  self-creative  evolution  of  life — of  creation  itself. 
They  represent  a  reconciliation  of  opposites  and  therefore  a  revolution 
and  a  regeneration.    They  are  at  the  root  of  all  production  of  life  true 
art  and  inventions  alike  which  are  the  product  of  fecundation,  gemma- 
tion   and    nourishment    through    unselfish    love,    with    ultimate    birth. 
Religion  and   high  arts   are  by   necessity  originally   products   of  the 
human  male,  but  are  ultimately  destined  to  form  parallels  to  the  higher 
sex  creativeness  of  the  woman.    But  women  will,  when  no  longer  denied 
"'-eedom  and  Equality,  bring  all  these  products  to  a  much  higher  status 
in  man  can  ever  hope  to  bring  them  alone.    No  longer  does  an  en- 
^.itened  woman  believe  in  man's  word  "that  she  cannot  understand 
ais  thoughts  and  actions."     The  fact  is  that  she  has  been  convinced 
"man  himself  did  not  know  what  he  was  talking  about." 


True  education  means  re-education  just  as  true  recreation  means 
re-creation. 


MEDITAl'I0l>f3.  AND    REFLECTIONS 

Evolvement  means  regeneration  through  involution,  evolution  and 
revolution.  Mysticism  is  forward  vision  and  implies  involution  and 
evolution  in  order  to  revolutionize  backward,  subnormal  and  intellectual 
vision. 


The  national  and  the  universal  mind  m.ust  develop  together  har- 
moniously. The  national  mind  cannot  evolve  alone  as  it  always  reaches 
a  climax  beyond  which  it  cannot  evolve  without  complete  revolution 
towards  greater  universalization. 


Mysticism  represents  an  emancipation  from  a  moral  view  of  life 
and  creation  to  an  aesthetical  one. 


Genius  is  the  faculty  of  self-developed  subjective— that  is  psychic- 
power  to  recognize  through  feeling  into  life  and  nature  the  intimate 
relationship  of  a  series  of  facts  and  appearances  which  are  closely  re- 
lated to  each  other,  which  power  the  purely  one-sided  intellectually 
educated  and  the  dogmatist  lacks.  The  development  of  such  spiritual 
or  psychic  power  serves  to  bring  into  cognition  principles  that  hereto- 
fore were  hidden  from  us.  Mysticism  therefore  begins  where  material 
laws  and  intellectual  powers  of  understanding  ends  and  aestheticism 
becomes  expressed.  Then  is  it  that  we  recognize  that  life  after  death 
is  a  higher  aesthetical  state  of  life  on  earth  just  as  life  is  a  higher 
aesthetical  state  than  matter,  and  just  as  true  art  is  a  higher  aesthetical 
expression  of  reality  where  the  supersensual  organic  laws  are  trans- 
gressed "aesthetically."  In  realistic  and  symbolical  art  on  the  other 
hand,  just  as  in  every  living  creature,  tree,  animal,  man,  the  lines  and 
forms  are  subject  to  geometrical  laws  which  are  only  "organically" 
transgressed.  The  end  of  occidental  fallacy  that  nature  geometrizes 
is  therefore  at  hand.  It  has  dawned  on  the  modern  mind  that  only  the 
one-sided  intellect  geometrizes,  just  as  we  have  come  to  see  that  his- 
tory only  repeats  itself  when  we  teach  the  same  archaic  utterances 
as  truth  which  our  ancestors  believed  in. 


The  West  instituted  baptism  because  bathing  was  considered  a 
disgrace;  the  East  never  lost  the  feeling  that  water  not  only  cleansed 
the  body  but  also  the  soul.  The  East  never  produced  a  wholly  ab- 
stract and  unapplied  religion. 


Free  thought  is  Impossible  without  free  press  and  free  speech. 


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MEDITATIONS    AND    REFLECTIONS 

The  religious  instinct  in   humanity   is   an   inherent  and   mbor 
instinct  for  generative  and  regenerative  balance  and  power,  and  p' 
sents  itself  to  us  in  "states  of  mind."     Every   change  in  religion  is  - 
brought  forth  by  a  change  of  one  state  of  mind  into  another.     A.  mys-  ^ 
tical  state  of  mind  applies  the  help  of  inherent  psychic  power,  and  \ 
produces  different  expressions  in  acts  and  art,  as  symbolism  which 
represents  the  product  of  an  abstract  state  of  mind. 

Every  higlier  state  of  mind  is  created  by  transgression  or  tres- 
passing of  the  restrictions  of  the  past,  just  as  it  is  created  through 
transgressions  of  man-made  laws  and  even  through  transgressions  of 
what  we  regard  as  laws  of  nature. 

Metaphysics  is  fundamentally  the  result  of  transgressiorx  of  the 
intellect;  metapsy chics  is  caused  through  transgression  of  feeling. 
(All  progress  is  caused  through  transgression  into  excess,  bringing 
higher  experiment,  experience  and  expression.)  All  that  is  not  physics 
in  metaphysics  is  psychics,  and  metapsychics  represents  a  truly  rela- 
tive higher  dimensional  plane  of  consciousness.  We  must  regard  the 
fourth  dimension  and  even  further  dimensional  planes  as  higher 
dimensional  states  of  mind,  and  not  as  expressions  to  be  found  in 
the  material  or  physical  world.  But  all  effort  spent  in  transgressing 
material  and  geometrical  laws  helps  in  the  development  of  higher 
dimensional  states  of  mind  and  planes  of  consciousness. 


All  original  and  .advanced  thought  is  emancipating  and  healing. 


To  come  into  contact  with  antipodal  doctrines  of  different  religions, 
arts,  and  antipodal  opinions  in  daily  life  was  the  same  effect  on  the 
child's  mind  and  psyche  as  the  switching  on  of  the  electric  current 
has  on  the  light  or  the  motor.  All  that  is  needed  besides  is  to  direct 
the  child's  inventiveness,  energy  and  courage  towards  optimism,  good 
humor  and  kindliness,  that  is:  in  the  right  channels  of  self-knowledge 
and  therefore  knowledge  of  human  nature,  the  sanctity  of  the  flesh 
and  the  divinity  of  the  mind  and  of  nature.  As  imagining  power, 
vision  and  phantasy  making  are  of  highest  importance  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  individuals,  nations  and  races  alike  for  tlie  casting  of 
Destiny  and  Fate  it  must  be  evident  that  true  education  must  pay 
highest  attention  to  the  transformation  of  the  youth  through  child- 
hood to  manhood,  and  must  recognize  that  evolution  of  art  conscious- 
ness and  evolution  of  life's  consciousness  are  wholly  inseparable. 


The  religion  ol  »he  past  centered  on  Healing  through  blind  belief 
and  which  necessitated  restriction  of  enlightenment;  the  religion 
of  the  future  through  complete  enlightenment  and  a  higher  belief 
that  there  is  nothing  in  the  whole  universe  that  is  not  God. 


